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...triggered to go off when the coffin lid was lifted. However, the triumph of sepulchral gadgeteering was the "life signal," which offered mechanical surcease for the widespread terror of being accidentally buried alive. In such devices the victim was provided with a bell rope a speaking tube, an air vent or even a ladder...
...Faure took off, in the midst of all their other perplexities, to meet in Luxembourg for an eight-hour session on how to save the Saar statute. Adenauer tried to get Faure to put off the referendum and pressure Joho into calling a Landtag election so that Saarlanders might vent their hostility on Hoffman without making the Saar statute an innocent victim of his unpopularity. But Paris and Bonn had explicitly agreed not to intervene in the Saar's decisionmaking, and so the two leaders agreed only to put out a vague statement saying that they still believed...
...times, they make Kamikaze dives at planes and manage to get sucked into propellers. This year, ten planes have been wrecked (no human casualties) by goony-bird action on Midway. With the advent of jet aircraft, the problem has become acute: a goony vacuumed into a forward induction vent could cause a jet to explode...
...likely to be belligerently so. While they may feel the need to cultivate an indifference to certain things (most freshmen apparently never put their "dinks" on, once freshman camp is over), they are less likely to make the art of indifference a study in itself. And while they may vent their scorn verbally on hapless little Ithaca College in the town below them, they will probably not vent it on the world in general or on that portion of it unfortunate enough not to be attending Cornell...
While the conservatives dissipated their strength in quibblings, the Communists threw their 100-vote bloc solidly to Le Troquer. Crowed the Reds in a special victory communique: "By their vote the Communists intend to show their will to fight with the Socialist workers to pre vent ratification of the Bonn agreements and the Treaty of Paris [EDC]." Next day Socialist Le Troquer, a good anti-Communist who is regarded as "more for than against" the EDC, tried to shake off this unilateral attempt to recreate a Popular Front. Said he in his acceptance speech, as the Reds sat silent...