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...After a panel of chest surgeons and physicians in Atlantic City, N.J. had reached substantial agreement that there is some connection between heavy cigarette smoking and lung cancer, Boston's Dr. Richard Overholt asked whether any of the doctors was so convinced that he was ready to swear off smoking. Not a hand was raised...
...Near Mombasa (pop. 85,000), chief town in the steamy coastal plain, a gang of blood-smeared Negroes buried the remains of two mutilated sheep, then crept back to their huts after taking the Mau Mau oath: "I swear to kill a white man, or may this oath kill me!" One of the oath-takers was a 31-year-old Negro servant, well known for his loyalty to Mrs. Eileen Ennis, one of Mombasa's 2,000 whites. He returned to the Ennis household with two panga knives, slashed Mrs. Ennis and stabbed her sleeping daughter. When the police...
...fangled detective gadgets with which Dr. Gonzales himself pioneered was the spectrograph. In 1942 the husband of a woman found strangled in Central Park had seven witnesses to swear that he had been at a dance at the time of her death. But spectrograph analysis of soil in his trouser cuffs broke his alibi and clinched the case that sent him to the electric chair...
From across the Canadian border a Confederate band rode into St. Albans, Vt., robbed the bank and made its president swear "loyalty" to the Confederacy. In St. Louis, Federal boats were burned at the levee. In New York City, 15 hotels and Barnum's Museum were set afire in a vain effort to burn the whole city to the ground. In Louisville there was an unsuccessful attempt to kidnap Vice Presidentelect Andrew Johnson, and in Chicago, Hines himself arrived to direct "an armed rebellion of thousands of Copperheads." What happened there was to happen many times to Hines...
...insurance money. As a killer, Ravinel proves tender and compassionate. After Mireille drinks a carefully prepared potion, her eyes close and Ravinel tearfully helps to lower her inert body into a bathtub full of water. "Don't worry, Mireille," he says. "You won't feel anything ... I swear I never wanted to do you any harm...