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When Casement was found guilty, a clamor rose from Ireland, the U.S. and even Britain that he be reprieved. But the prosecution had a weapon of great power: the "black diaries" said to have been found in a trunk Casement left behind in his old London lodgings...
Highly Volatile. Early last week in Montreal, Michelle Duclos loaded the trunk of her white 1961 Rambler with a brown cardboard box full of dynamite -each stick wrapped in pages of a French-language newspaper. The New Yorkers almost certainly could have purchased or stolen their dynamite closer to home, but getting it from Quebec terrorists added to the internationalism...
...worn tightly, the doctors say, panty girdles of this style may act like tourniquets, checking the return flow of blood and lymph from the feet and legs to the trunk. An all-around girdle is not so likely to have this effect, even if tight, because blood and lymph find alternate return channels on the inner side of the thighs. Once the "dependent edema" caused by tight panty girdles has been diagnosed, the prescription for cure is simple and straightforward: throw away the girdle...
...inevitably out. It turns up at the airport, where engines, customs officials or both are missing just when someone is desperately in need of a flight. Wawa hovers miasmatically in hotel rooms, turning a once placid shower into a veritable Victoria Falls, or switches telephone calls from one trunk line to another. Africa is progressing in many fields against great odds, but Wawa is still spreading, and last week its first symptoms were revealed in Tanzania...
...retrieve passengers. He switched maintenance to nighttime, when most jets are down anyway, and established a SAClike control center in Miami to anticipate trouble and try to correct it. He also offered incentives for increased passenger loadings, set quotas for on-time arrivals (Eastern had been tenth among trunk lines, with 33% of its planes late). "Bootstrap" achieved its limited goals, and now Hall has replaced it with "Operation Breakthrough." Its ambitious goal: $14.5 million in profits this year...