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...drive with them. She was taken about five miles into the desert, where Schmid and Saunders walked her down to a dry stream bed and hit her on the head with rocks until she died. Then, Mary related, Schmid walked back to the car, got a shovel from the trunk, and told her to follow him. She did, found Alleen face down and bleeding, and helped bury...
...along, and they were much cleverer. Instead of attacking in the open, the ants lured the elephant deep into the thick bamboo, where he could neither see nor move about easily. The ants swarmed up his legs and attacked his eyes, mouth and the soft pink flesh inside his trunk. The elephant thrashed around, confused and maddened, and in the end he was reduced to a pile of whitened bones...
Merchant Seaman Gerald Gormley was practically dead on arrival at Detroit's Receiving Hospital. While fighting off street-corner hoods, he had been stabbed in the back, and the knife blade had slit right through his descending aorta, the main artery that carries blood to the trunk and legs. He was losing blood so fast that his heart stopped beating while he was on the operating table. Though surgeons managed to sew up the aorta and got his heart pumping once more, seven months passed before Gormley left the hospital...
...Falcon has been restyled into a sporty car for the family man with Mustang spirit but too many kids for bucket seats. It is almost three inches longer (184.3 in.) than the '65 version, has a long Mustang hood and a Mustang-like dropped-off trunk lid. To the Mustang-styled Falcon Futura line, a new sports coupe has been added, with wide bucket seats, 14-inch wheels and the standard Mustang engine. The Chevy II, which G.M, almost abandoned when compact sales began slumping, is lower and wider...
...only one hundredth of an inch in diameter, and guides the needle toward the nerves he wants to deaden with the aid of instant X rays that an assistant hands to him every ten seconds. One group of nerve fibers in the spinal cord serves the legs, another the trunk, and a third the arms. When the tip of the hollow needle is in about the right place, Neurosurgeon Mullan blows in a little air, then a radiopaque dye, so that the final, precise positioning will show on the X rays...