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...work. When the boss gets a load of that showboat parked next to his own heap, he fires the hero on the spot. Two days later, Dhéry gets a new job as a chauffeur: his boss is the mistress, who promptly locks the poor lunk in the trunk, drives by the wife's house and hollers yoo-hoo. After 20 hours in the trunk, the hero escapes, recaptures the car, on the way home stops for gas. But it isn't just a gas station; it's a car-wash...
...state did not exist when the crimes were committed, the judges argued that Israel now represents all Jews. "The people is one and the crime is one," they said. "To argue that there is no connection is like cutting away a tree root and branch and saying to its trunk: I have not hurt...
...undisguised surprise of their competitors, two of the nation's most hard-pressed trunk airlines-National and Continental-last week announced plans to join forces. The resulting line, to be christened National-Continental, would be the fifth largest U.S. air carrier, outranked only by United, American. TWA and Eastern. The merger proposal, which calls for National stockholders to get 1¾ Continental shares for each National share they hold, seems likely to win quick approval from the Civil Aeronautics Board, whose Kennedy-appointed chairman, Alan S. Boyd, is an outspoken advocate of airline consolidation...
Instead of a human subject, Surgeon Scales used a pig with the same weight as an average human trunk. A 2-in. by 2-in. piece of skin was cut from the anesthetized animal's back. "The pig was then 'levitated,' " Scales reports, about 1 in. above the bed, "until the wound was dry -a period of one hour." Under ordinary conditions, such a wound would have taken 24 hours to dry and begin to heal. The pig showed no ill effects, and the fact that its temperature fell 7°F. while...
...counterfeiter and gambler, who was shot twice and dumped into a West Side alley. Testa was a friend of the late William ("Action") Jackson, a 300-lb. "juice man" (a collector of loans for gangland usurers known as "juice dealers"), who was tortured to death and stuffed into the trunk of his Cadillac last August. Testa, 48, had also been romancing an 18-year-old, green-eyed stripper who moonlighted as a police informer, picked up her lowdown by keeping her ears open as she took her clothes off at command performances before mobmen in the Cicero and Franklin Park...