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Moments later, the prisoners marched four hostages to the top of Times Square. An "executioner" pulled back the head of each and held a knife to his throat. Elsewhere in D yard, grim convicts, taking up similar positions be side each of the other hostages, poised as if to kill them with either a knife or crowbar. Oswald turned to aides...
...radio corporations, such a co-operative plan proved impossible. Only the AT & T commercial toll offered a method by which radio stations could independently finance themselves, and, indeed, accrue profit. Two years later, advertising agencies paid performers high salaries, broadcasting was a national institution, and wavelength competition was cut-throat. Says Barnouw: "The crisis atmosphere...engulfed radio broadcasting in the mid-1920's. (It stemmed from) small v. powerful stations; patent allies v. competitors; patent allies v. antimonopolists; telephone v. manufacturing groups; copyright owners v. users; educational v. commercial interests; political ins v. outs...
...tippler himself, Rahu stole and sipped the nectar of immortality. As punishment, he was snipped in two by Vishnu. The sun and the moon tattled on Rahu; he still tries to retaliate by swallowing them. Sometimes he does, causing eclipses, but they always slip through his throat...
...Protestants destroying their own homes before fleeing to safer districts. "We're getting out," said one, "but no Catholic will get these houses." A Catholic resident lamented, "In winter we used to shovel snow off each other's paths; now everybody is cutting each other's throat...
...researchers were puzzled as to the cause of the condition but decided that it does not appear to be psychosomatic. At least half of the patients developed their symptoms following influenza-like illnesses. Others began to suffer from the disability after undergoing surgery unrelated to the nose, mouth or throat. None had readily observable abnormalities of the sensory organs. But Dr. Robert Henkin reported that when taste buds were examined with an electron microscope, marked cellular anomalies were noted...