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Your story on Adolf Eichmann refers to Reinhardt Heydrich suffering a severed spine in the attack on him near Lidice. It was as Heydrich rode through Prague that a hand grenade was thrown into his open car and exploded behind him. His spleen was torn to pieces. In spite of almost immediate surgical intervention, he died several days later. I had to perform the autopsy and found the spine intact. As the whole incident occurred in Prague, the destruction of Lidice cannot be linked with the death of Heydrich in the way described in your statement...
...Bridge (in German). The tragedy of seven teen-age German boys thrown into the front lines as human sandbags two days before the end of World...
...Bridge (in German). The tragedy of seven teen-age German boys thrown into the front lines as human sandbags two days before the end of World...
Disposable Forceps. Among A.H.S.'s fastest-selling wares are such items as plastic syringes, forceps and surgical packs, which are used only once and thrown away. Besides cutting the danger of cross-infection and saving the hospital sterilizing costs, the disposable items assure A.H.S. a steady replacement market. Says President Murdough: "Probably half of our business is now in products which by their nature are consumed...
...driven from the tribe as a witch. To save her wretched life, McNair risks taking an illegal short cut through the Belgian Congo. They are swiftly arrested. McNair, as a white man, is quartered with the Belgian officers, but Mukasa gets slapped around by the hard-eyed police and thrown into a jail crammed with demented African cultists. Engineering an escape, McNair brings them all to a greater doom: abandonment for the half-mad aunt, betrayal for McNair and death for Mukasa. Stacey's message is a paradox: "To die is not to have been defeated, to live...