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...Abundant Life. In Astoria, N.Y., Mrs. Dominick Rondi was excused from jury duty so that she could go to Manhattan and select the prizes she had won on a radio quiz show...
...were members of a panel from which the court was trying to select twelve jurors (and an alternate) to try the case of 41-year-old Dr. Hermann Sander for the "mercy killing" last December of his cancer-ridden patient, Mrs. Abbie Borroto...
...purified isotopes are stored for packing in a long brick building. The innocent-looking bottles stand on racks behind a high, thick barrier. Watching their work in mirrors, the shipping clerks select a bottle. With remote-control devices that unscrew the bottle's cap, they take out a measured amount of liquid, put it into another bottle and seal it in the proper container, which may contain several hundred pounds of lead...
...heads of embassies, is trying to talk the -Russians out of supporting a revolution in the province of Azerbaijan. His objectives: to safeguard British oil in Iran, check Russian expansion, keep a friendly government in power in Teheran. Cagey operator though he is, Essex has been careless enough to select as his assistant a man he has never seen before, Geologist Ivre MacGregor, an uncommunicative Scot who grew up in Iran. It is a choice that plagues and defeats him. Mac not only sympathizes with the revolution and gives the Russians a bill of health; he also cops sophisticated Kathy...
...preferential system to select Marshals as distinguished from the straight ballot used for Committee members must be noted on the ballot...