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...last week. Moonshiners themselves are lamenting their own losses to a new and formidable competitor, who does not have to worry about revenooers busting up his stills. The competitor: Georgia's Viking Distillery, which has brought out a 90-proof corn whisky, Georgia Moon, that is just as throat-burning, stomach-churning and aggressively youthful (none older than 30 days) as its backwoods counterpart. The difference is that it bears the federal excise stamp...
...presence of close relatives and a religious functionary. In Tibet, a lama must be there to pluck a hair of the dying man's head so that the soul can escape through the root-hole. In Turkey, a hoca (holy man) wets the dying man's throat with water-if a soul gets too thirsty as it climbs the hill of eternity, it will surely sell itself to the Devil for a cooling drink, In Yucatan, on the other hand, the Chan Kom tribesmen beat the dying with a rope and urge them to get on with...
Rusk's father was an ordained Presbyterian minister who had to give up the pulpit because a throat ailment kept him from preaching. At the time Dean was born, the fourth of five children, the elder Rusk was scratching a living as a rural schoolteacher and a small cotton farmer in Cherokee County. When Dean was four, his father got a job as a mail carrier in Atlanta, and the family moved to a frame house on Whitehall Street, just beyond the edge of the Negro district. The children wore underwear made at home out of flour sacks, often...
...Clos Salembier, from the tar-paper shacks of Maison-Carrée, Moslems erupted in wild demonstrations. Rebel flags blossomed on dozens of minarets. Cars belonging to Europeans were smashed and burned, shops and cafes turned into a shambles. A luckless policeman was caught by the crowd and his throat cut. Nine other Europeans were beaten to death, burned alive or fatally stabbed with sharpened screwdrivers...
...Telephone Laboratories' transistorized, electronic larynx, for people who have had their voice boxes removed in surgery and have never mastered the difficult art of speaking with the gullet. Contoured to fit the hand and powered by tiny batteries, the artificial larynx is pressed against the flesh of the throat, transmits vibrations into the lower end of the vocal tract. These vibrations can be converted into voiced sounds of speech in a normal manner-by use of the tongue, teeth and lips. But because no flow of air is required, the user can speak with the electronic larynx while exhaling...