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...Southern Pacific Hospital) had a physician got wise to her. The queer dilation of her left pupil was caused (she thought) by a mastoid operation when she was 14. She bit her lip to get blood which she placed in her ear. ("I made it appear to squirt from my ear by shaking my head.") Vomiting, she claimed, was easy, and her complaints of double vision were not always false. Sometimes faulty vision actually developed after she was given drugs to ease her "pain...
...have visions of themselves as Central Intelligence men--the kind that sip cognacs in little Bulgarian cafes. The thought of agents around the College infecting piles of dirty laundry with wire recorders is terrifying. From this it is only a short step to Steve Roper buttonhole-cameras, boutonnieres that squirt poison, and two-way wrist radios...
...ants need not have drowned [TIME, Aug. 28] had they realized the potentialities of jet propulsion. As a boy in western Washington, I used to toss large black ants into our quarry swimming hole. After a few preliminary struggles to orient themselves to the nearest shore, they would squirt a jet of formic acid from a convenient rear port and be shot six or eight inches nearer safety. Not being streamlined (and rudderless), these insects would re-aim and repeat the process until they were able to scramble out. Perhaps our Western ants are just smarter...
Reporter Melady gets the truth in the end, and Nathan gets two of the Aycocks before he is cornered and driven to suicide. But the characters are a mighty long time aflounderin' around in the Southern-cliche brakes before release comes. Streams of tobacco juice squirt in all directions, brass spittoons chime, calico dresses strain around the exciting hips of 15-year-old girls, and somewhere a mockingbird sings...
After weeks of shopping around, Packard's 65-year-old Treasurer Hugh Ferry agreed to take the job temporarily. Ferry, who had joined Packard in 1910 when some drivers still carried ammonia to squirt at dogs snapping at their tires, was no production man. But he knew Packard inside out, and got the top brass working more smoothly. Dealers have been jacked up, the sales organization expanded and the new model hustled along...