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Write Me a Murder, by Frederick Knott, gives its killer a pen with which to sign his own death warrant, and after some fancy scalp tingling, he does...
Write Me a Murder, by Frederick (Dial "M" for Murder) Knott, gives its killer a pen with which to sign his own death warrant, and after some fancy scalp tingling, he does...
Ministerial Scalp. Among other conditions worrisome to the Christian Democrats: the Free Democrats' insistence on curtailment of welfare state programs, recognition that West Germany's Bundeswehr should be equipped with nuclear weapons, a beefed-up defense budget (from $2.75 billion to $3.4 billion) that would take priority over all other expenditures. After endless wrangling, Adenauer agreed as well to a coalition committee that will pass on all government policy statements to the Bundestag, and a new Ministry of Development, handling foreign aid programs, which had been vehemently resisted by Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard...
...Free Democrats' nationalistic notions were recognized in the contract, such as support for an ''active'' policy by which Bonn would deal directly with Eastern European nations, notably Czechoslovakia and Poland. The more significant development was the resignation of Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano, whose scalp was offered by Adenauer as a sop to the Free Democrats, who are still smarting from his campaign attacks. In his six years at the Foreign Ministry, Brentano proved a zealous, high-principled advocate of European unity through such organizations as the Common Market and Euratom. His successor, sharp-tongued...
...tiny electrode is inserted into each frontal lobe of the brain with the patient under general anesthesia. Once in place the electrode tips lie in the "inferior medial" white matter of the lobe, with the thread-thin wires, insulated by lacquer and fine teflon tubing, projecting through the scalp. When the electrodes are attached to the high-frequency electrical current, Dr. White explained, lesions, formed by coagulation of tissue, are created in the area. The process takes from five to 10 seconds. Additional lesions are created at intervals of several days by withdrawing the electrodes a centimeter at a time...