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...killing her lover's other mistress in cold blood, Mary Hilton was going to take "the 9 o'clock walk," that morning stroll in which England's condemned cover their last mile. Yield to the Night is the story of Mary Hilton's last three weeks on earth and the price she pays for murder. It is a high price in accumulated terror. The emotions that British Novelist Joan Henry uncovers in her artful portrait of an ignorant but intelligent homicidal type are not profound, but intense...
When they are shown over state factories, the trade union delegates might well ask their interpreters to construe the new code of labour discipline. It forbids workers to talk or otherwise waste time in working hours, to arrive late or "stroll around"; it requires them to try to overfulfil their norms; and the last eight of its 22 sections are devoted to punishments. Workers, says this code, should be made to apologise for their mistakes publicly; if their products are defective, up to one-third of their wages will be deducted. There is, of course, no right to strike...
...Strategic Air Command, a favorite bull-session yarn tells of a new sergeant at Omaha's Offutt Air Force Base who stopped on a stroll around the post to watch a middle-aged airman at work on a snappy sports car. "Let me give you a lift," he said finally. "I don't see how you ever got to be a sergeant handling a wrench that way." The man in overalls was General Curtis E. LeMay, SAC's commander (who is actually a first-class mechanic). By last week one phase of Curt LeMay's passion...
...three weeks ago, Pauline and Juliet, like many other fashionable New Zealanders, sat taking tea with Pauline's mother at a restaurant in lofty Victoria Park. After tea the two girls and Mrs. Parker took advantage of the brisk, sunny afternoon to stroll down the park's winding hillside track. A few minutes later, Pauline and Juliet came racing back to the restaurant. Mrs. Parker, they said, had fallen and was desperately injured. When the doctor arrived, Pauline's mother, her face and head cruelly cut and bruised, was already dead...
...When that day comes, Boeing's Allen will be ready, as before, to plunk down Boeing's bankroll to back the aircraft its engineers build. Allen knows that the future will be risky, but he has unlimited confidence in Boeing's team. Nevertheless, Allen likes to stroll over and gently finger the sharp spines of his blooming cactus plant, remembering the dark days nine years...