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...loving, wealthy mother with a homely daughter, Britain's Labor government for months has hinted at, prompted and hoped for a marriage between the forlorn British Aircraft Corp. and the airframe interests of the handsomely profitable Hawker Siddeley Group Ltd. BAC was shyly willing; Hawker Siddeley was reluctant. Whereupon the old lady-Her Majesty's government-stepped in, urged a sort of shotgun merger...
Slightly Embarrassing. The Fort Worth prosecutor promptly tested McKinley Powell, 36, another Negro truck driver, who had been accused of murder last June. Powell also passed-whereupon his accuser confessed the crime. The day after Powell's release, the prosecutor tested Donald G. Carter, 19, who had spent three months in jail awaiting trial for a burglary that he insisted he did not commit. Carter also passed; the police rechecked his story and belatedly discovered that he was telling them the truth from the start: he was in state prison on another charge at the time of the burglary...
...more of a game of bluff, suspense and surprise, with both sides trying to spring unexpected evidence that can demolish the unwary. Among many examples was the recent Candy Mossier murder case: a Texas convict testified that Candy had given him $7,000 to kill her husband-whereupon Defense Lawyer Percy Foreman dramatically produced the man's wife to swear that he was a dope addict and a compulsive liar...
...heart attack; in Narragansett, R.I. McGrath's political demise came when Truman ordered him to look into cor ruption in government and McGrath hired Liberal Republican Newbold Morris as a special investigator; Morris began by investigating McGrath, which so enraged the Attorney General that he fired him, whereupon Truman reacted by summarily firing McGrath...
...enemy agent, hijacks the sub, and tries to kill the patient by ramming a neural ganglion. Not a second too soon, Hemonaut Boyd sinks the sub with the laser gun. The villain is then devoured, head first, by a white cell that resembles a large, aggressive hominy grit. Whereupon the survivors follow the optic nerve until they squirt out of the tear duct and are rescued from a teardrop that looks like Lake Michigan. And then back, BACK, BACK to normal size...