Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Serving as his own guinea pig, Dr. Lilly stripped himself naked, put on a skin-diver's mask for breathing, and was suspended face down in a tank of warm, slowly flowing water. In this "dead man's float" position, he was almost as out of this world as if he were still unborn. He could see nothing. He could hear nothing except his own breathing and faint water sounds from the piping. Except for the face mask and the gently touching supports, he could feel nothing. The temperature of the water, 94° F., made it feel...
...spite of his intention to keep perfectly still, he made surreptitious swimming motions or stroked one finger with another. Such small delights gave him great satisfaction. He found that if he denied himself all such stimulus, the tension grew unbearable, and he had to get out of the tank for relief...
Coffee Cache. Because he could use Post Exchange permits to transport his milk across the German border without paying customs, McLane got the idea of smuggling coffee into Germany in the; tank trucks he used for bulk deliveries...
...filled tanks with coffee beans he bought in Belgium for 60? per lb., concealed them with a small inner tank containing a few gallons of milk, resold the coffee on the German black market for up to $11 per lb. The scheme worked fine until German customs officials got suspicious, arrested him with a 5,500-lb. load ; of coffee. Friends in the Post Exchange service got him freed on $12,000 bail, and McLane promptly skipped the country. The Germans tried him in absence, found him guilty and sentenced him to seven months in jail...
Died. James M. Leech, 46, boilermaker, onetime U.S. Army captain and prime suspect in the fire and ax murders (Jan. 7, 1946) of three fellow officers while they slept in a villa near Passau, Germany; of burns suffered when an oil-filled tank he was welding caught fire; in Lima, Ohio. After a series of bungled Army investigations in 1946, the case was reopened three times but never came to trial. Leech steadfastly claimed his innocence, was not officially charged with the murders until 1954. Charges against him were dropped last year...