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...accompanied by his wife Sophie, he was highly vulnerable. The route of his procession to the town hall that June 28 was widely known; his open touring car made him an easy mark. Each of the seven assassins stationed along the route carried a pistol, a bomb and a vial of cyanide to swallow if captured...
...Angeles Dodgers and manager of the Seattle Mariners (1980-81); with felony possession of cocaine after police spotted him driving an Audi 4000 that had been reported stolen; in Los Angeles. Though the car turned out to have been borrowed from a friend, officers found a vial containing a small amount of cocaine...
...machines have come a long way in speed and accuracy since the days when suspects were asked to blow into a glass vial for a wet chemical test. The latest version of Smith & Wesson's $4,300 Breathalyzer measures the level of alcohol in a suspect's blood by projecting an infrared beam through a sample of breath blown into the machine. Massachusetts State Police, whose arrests for drunken driving in the past three months have increased 48% over last year, bought 35 of the new Breathalyzers in August...
Yolande Betbeze (1951) recalled to Miss America Chronicler Frank Deford just how silly the year could become. She was sent to Paris with a vial of water from the Hudson River. To symbolize Franco-American friendship, she was to pour it into the Seine. She remembered that "all the damn water ran out of the vial on the plane over, and I had to refill it with water from the faucet in my hotel...
...Husband David, the late moviemaker best known for Gone With the Wind, is treated with sympathy but still comes off as a monument to destructive compulsions and self-indulgence. Much of his legendary energy appears to have come from a vial of Benzedrine; his lavish spending distracted his attention from huge gambling debts; he was always late, and misspent his time writing gratuitous memos on rolls of two-inch-wide paper that snaked across his desk...