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...Harry J. McCann and Russell S. Fisher, who conducted the post-mortem, the .22 calibre bullet entered the left side of the brunette's head, and failed to penetrate the orbital region of the brain. Hence they concluded that the Vassar honors graduate would have been able to stagger 50 feet from the place where she actually discharged the weapon...
Chief among these is the preparation of new check-off-lists, upon which each man will be assigned a number, eliminating the bottleneck producing procedure of signing for meals. Commencement of classes will also tend to stagger at least the breakfast and luncheon lines, and the opening of the new graduate dining hall in Vansert Hall Monday eases the burden still further...
Along Long Island's Jones Beach rolled a truck, laying a curtain of thick white fog like a smoke screen. Within a few minutes, flies and mosquitoes in its path were observed to stagger and collapse. In half an hour, every insect on the beach was dead. Next day, the four-mile beach area got another fog dose. By the time weekenders arrived, a few hours later, the DDT beach test was clearly a "100% success...
...theme of Frogner Park is nothing less than the birth, life and death of man. There are no monumental mementos of captains, kings and conquerors in the Vigeland cast of characters-just plain men, women & children. Massive males stagger under the weight of a heavy fountain-bowl; chubby children sport in & out of stone tree branches. A bridge over a pool bears 58 bronze figures of rugged toilers. At one corner of the bridge is a 20-ft. dragon clutching a reluctant woman whose bowed face, closely examined, reveals smiling pleasure. Topping the park is a 56-ft. white granite...
Measure of Failure. In destruction aground these were totals to stagger even an air enthusiast's imagination of air power on the make. But they were also a measure of the power Rundstedt had thrown into the offensive, of the reserves he had massed to keep his drive going. The German power, assembled under the handicap of air inferiority, was also a measure of the failure by the Allied command and by Vandenberg's Ninth (the biggest air force on the Continent) to use air tactics to prevent such an offensive...