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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...masks, rolled south into the U.N.'s white, neat reception center in Korea's demilitarized zone. A North Korean major, dapper in black boots and gold epaulets, shook hands with a U.S. major, stiffly announced: "We have 200 bodies; 193 of them are American remains, seven are unknown." The U.N. and the Communists had begun carrying out one of the armistice provisions-exchange of war dead...
...Communists are returning 4,011 U.N. dead. The U.N. is handing over 14,-61 enemy dead (2,154 Chinese, 9,655 North Koreans, 2,252 unknown). It was a grim job and would continue to be: all U.S. bodies would be examined in laboratories in Japan, and identifying marks checked against records, to make sure that the Communists had not pulled any funny business...
...individualistic interior paintings of chariot races, departing warriors, gladiators. Sestieri's conclusion: the conquering Lucanians not only took over the Greeks' city, but pre-empted their tombs as well. Executed by Greek artists under Lucanian orders, the sepulchral paintings, he believes, indicate the existence of a previously unknown style of early Italian...
Stanford's researchers have yet to discover exactly how ozone is formed. But they believe that it results from a photochemical reaction of sunlight and unknown materials in the air. Furthermore, as ozone increases, so does smog. Los Angeles' sunshine has made the atmosphere the most ozone-laden in the world: as high as 80 parts per 100 million parts of air. The solution to the Los Angeles smog problem, according to the Stanford scientists: find out which materials react with the sun to form ozone, filter them out before they reach the open...
Died. Francis Mariotte (alias Frank Diamond), 61, Al ("Scarface") Capone's muscleboy during the racketeering heydays of the '205 and '303; of a shotgun blast (triggerman unknown) fired as he was opening his garage in Chicago's West Side. Swarthy, hotheaded Hoodlum Mariotte made a fortune as manager of Capone's far-flung network of brothels, since 1948 has been a Chicago contractor...