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...beheaded for her affair with Olimpio, but for the murder of her wealthy father, Francesco. Just before, her stepmother's head had tumbled from the same block. And just after, her brother Giacomo, already tortured with red-hot pincers, had his head smashed with an iron hammer, his throat slit, and his body quartered. Lover Olimpio, who had actually polished off Francesco with the help of a hired assassin, was not there that day. He had been murdered not long before...
Microphones for use in noisy places, e.g., military aircraft, have always been a headache for acoustic engineers. If placed close in front of the mouth, they pick up a great deal of "ambient" noise, as well as sounds that come from the wearer's breathing. Throat microphones are noisy, too, and not ideally intelligible. Both types can be a nuisance to the wearer and interfere with other equipment...
...technique of political bloodletting without having to clutter up their minds with abstruse theory, principle or policy. A Midwestern governor, one of many U.S. public officials who received Legion political training, recently recalled with a shudder: "Legion politics! That's the worst kind. They not only cut your throat the way politicians do, but they stand around and watch you gurgle...
...Great Adventure (Sucksdorff; Louis de Rochemont Associates). A pool in the forest waits in stillness at first light. The mists are bodied silences. Suddenly, a bird sings, clears his morning throat and tries again. A dewdrop tumbles from its cobweb couch. Fox cubs yawn and blink in their cozy ground, while overhead the lilies languidly unclench. On the nearest farm the cock insults creation, which unexpectedly replies. A vixen darts among the spluttering hens and carries off her breakfast...
...After the big Air Force Constellation carrying the families landed at Hickam, the first passenger out of the door was Judith Heller, who had gathered together a whole "trousseau" for the reunion. She paused, looked at the husband she had not seen for 34 months, and gasped. From the throat of Airman Heller there came a choked cry, and then he bounded up the steps toward his wife...