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...night recently in the nearby port of Khobar, Salih met his latest Juliet at her home, secure in the belief that Juliet's husband was out of town. Suddenly they heard the husband's approaching footsteps. The wife had the presence of mind to scream, "Thief! Thief!" and Salih, catching on, pretended that he was trying to escape. Salih was captured and arraigned for judgment before the local ruler, Emir Saud ibn Jiluwi, who decreed the traditional Arabian punishment for a habitual thief: public amputation of his right hand. Salih calmly accepted the verdict and did not even...
...Force's Major "Chuck" Yeager (TIME, April 18, 1949), the first man to fly faster than sound. He would fly "chase" on the X3, watching for the beginnings of trouble. As he taxied up to the line, other jets took off, and soon Muroc echoed with the clattering scream of their engines...
...will let Dan Reed's bill come out in mid-May, and the House will pass it overwhelmingly; 2) the Senate will study the bill for a month, then rewrite it to postpone cuts in both income and excess-profits taxes until next January; 3) the House will scream but, under pressure from the Administration to balance the budget, will finally pass the Senate version...
...thanked her for the medicine. When the Rucks' six-year-old son walked among the huts, they didn't say, 'Little bwana, tonight, when you are sleeping, after we have killed your father and mother, we will break down the door of your room, while you scream and scream, and then cut your throat...
...three little pigs telling the big bad wolf that they are not very tasty and asking him to spread that information throughout the forest. By the very nature of news, the present investigations show colleges as they are not--as Communist spy factories. For the papers that now scream headlines of "Reds in Colleges" will not so avidly print the information that some committee or other has found the great bulk of a Faculty guilty of nothing at all. Purveyors of news must always look for the unusual and ignore the commonplace. Jenner and Velde do the same in their...