Word: tubefuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...murder victim's purse in the Abbott cellar-was led into the prison gas chamber, still quietly insisting on his innocence. After a minute, Warden Harley O. Teets shook hands with Abbott, murmured "God bless you." Replied the prisoner calmly: "Thank you." A doctor strapped the long tube of a stethoscope to Abbott's chest. Abbott sat quietly, bound to the execution chair. The warden and other officials left the chamber, bolted the door. Three minutes later the executioner pulled a lever, and 16 pellets of sodium cyanide dropped into a crock of sulphuric acid beneath Abbott...
...anesthetized patient on the operating table was a man of 50 whose heart had been seriously damaged by rheumatic fever. Electrodes taped to his ankles and wrists led to an electrocardiograph screen. He had a blood pressure cuff on the left arm, and the usual tube down the wind pipe, hooked up to an oxygen cylinder. Surgeon Bailey-scrubbed and all but mummified in sterile gear-stepped up to the table. He drew a scalpel lightly across the patient's chest, barely breaking the skin in a thin red line, to show where he wanted the incision. Then...
...medicated wad of cotton. To newsmen about to ply him with such lackluster inquiries as whether he drinks the District of Columbia's fluoridated tap water (he does), Ike explained that his hearing temporarily was not good (Presidential Physician Howard McC. Snyder's diagnosis: an inflamed Eustachian tube). The President advised the press to sound off loud and clear to help his handicapped hearing...
Such scientific gear still does not answer the No. 1 question: Is there anything in the tomb? So Lerici pulls another technical trick. With a gasoline-powered drill he drills a 3-in. hole through the earth and the roof of the tomb and inserts an aluminum tube. Inside the tube is a 16-mm. camera with an electronic flash. Starting at compass north and looking all around, it takes twelve or more pictures of the tomb's interior, showing whether it has been looted or whether it still contains articles worth digging...
...Manifest. In Fort Lauderdale, Fla., cops rousted 6 ft. 6 in., 235 lb. Dempse McCormick out of an ice cream parlor where they found him sleeping, booked him for vagrancy after they emptied his pockets, discovered two billfolds, 30 cigarette lighters, a tobacco pouch, two flashlights, three toothbrushes, a tube of toothpaste, four bottles and two cans of lighter fluid, four spools of thread, one bottle of garlic salt, two tie clasps, three corks, nine pocket knives, two screwdrivers, a pair of pliers, two spools of fishing line, 15 assorted fishhooks, twelve defunct .38 cal. bullets, a set of dice...