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...like chickens. They were taken outside and dumped on the sidewalk. Five white fathers were stripped of their cassocks and their beards were cut off. Mr. Tucker was first. They hit him across the face with a beer bottle and blinded him. Then they beat him slowly, down the spine, with rifle butts and sticks. Every time he squirmed they hit him. It took him 45 minutes...
...Mayans, the Aztecs and the Incas-this book may prove a revelation. Fact is that from Tzinzunt-zan in Mexico to Tiahuanaco in what is now Bolivia, over a span of 4,000 miles and 2,500 years, more than two dozen pre-Columbian cultures flourished along the spine of America, and their rich complexity is still being unearthed...
...means a lot to us to feel a hearty Yale slap on our backs. (And think what delightful shivers will go down the spine of each lucky girl when her very own, prescrubbed Yale man murmurs in her ear, "Please dear--all the other fellows are doing...
...more mocked, more and more both impotent and dangerous, ineluctably doomed to die and yet still capable of killing: such was the bull at the end of its life, and such is man." Deeply troubled, Celestino returns to his hotel, lies down, experiences four agonizing pains along his spine, and dies...
Invented by Emmanuel Mitchell Trikilis, a self-taught Columbus engineer, the "Sentronic" book detector works on the ancient principle of magnetism. A sliver of magnetized metal is hidden somewhere in a book's spine or binding, and the librarian who checks the book out simply demagnetizes the metal insert by passing the book through a coil carrying an electric current. If a thief bolts for the exit instead of the check-out desk, the magnetized metal inside his book is detected by an instrument that trips a solenoid hidden at the door; the turnstile is automatically locked...