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With no lawyer to advise him, Danny fell into a well-laid legal trap. Confronted with Di Gerlando, Danny blurted: "You did it!"-thus indirectly admitting his own complicity. To shut the trap tighter, a detective then allegedly promised Danny that a full statement would free him, Grace and Chan. After several hours, said police, Danny implicated Grace and stated that he had offered Di Gerlando $500 to kill Grace's husband, and that Chan had been the lookout. Di Gerlando later charged that his confession was beaten out of him. The police denied it; he was convicted...
...friendly critter," one that I happen to like, I was painfully surprised to find that a whole tribe of friendly critters had set up housekeeping in the oven, closets and dog-food bags in my brand-new house; they forced me, contrary to my inclinations, to start a trap-hunting campaign. To be sure, mousetraps are rather cheap in Texas: 19? a pair. In my years in Europe, New England and Tennessee, I have neither become acquainted with so many rodents nor have I met such a variety of insects as I have known in my brief Texas stay...
Schmidt's letter finally got into the hands of the first sergeant. After that Schmidt really did have something to bitch about. He was assigned to extra duty peeling potatoes and scrubbing the grease trap in the mess hall. When he warned his company commander that unless the persecution stopped he would inform the press, he was charged with "wrongful communication of a threat" and "extortion." Despite the chaplain's testimony that he was only guilty of immaturity, singular lack of judgment and stubbornness, a general court-martial sentenced him to 18 months in the stockade...
...Asia this year for supplies that would take too long to come all the way from Stateside. Factories in Japan and Korea in the meantime are turning out hundreds of thousands of combat boots with thick rubber soles and steel plates to protect soldiers from both jungle and booby trap. The Koreans are tailoring 750,000 uniforms for the Vietnamese army, and the Japanese are providing nylon sandbags, barbed wire and prefabricated buildings. Taiwan is negotiating with the U.S. to supply mortar shells and machine-gun bullets, and enterprising Filipinos are making money selling the U.S. Army venomless snakes...
...whiff away peddlers hawked scented sachets and the Encyclopaedia Britannica. The New York Botanical Garden's 500-ft. tropical rain garden, adorned with a climbing cissus vine and rock pool, was back to back with Woolworth's counter, where salesgirls touted 880 packages of Venus Fly Trap, billed as "Nature's Magic Toy," which "Catches insects! Eats hamburger!" At the huge Kodak garden there were nervous flamingos and the Kodak "Smile Girl," who gradually wilted as she tried to keep her cheeks puffed and her lips curled upwards for half an hour at a time. Still, hundreds...