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Gloria Davy lay nude and face down on a downstairs divan, strangled and mutilated. Sue Farris was stabbed nine times and strangled, her wrist-bound body left in a second-floor bathroom. Mary Ann Jordan's corpse was in a front bedroom, stabbed five times, including one thrust in the left eye and one in the heart. Next to her were Pat Matusek, strangled with wrists bound; and Pam Wilkening, also bound by the wrists, who had been stabbed in the heart. In the adjoining front bedroom sprawled Nina Schmale, bound at the wrists, gagged, knifed four times...
...perfectly understandable although rather archaic, that the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra must not perform the works of German Composer Richard Wagner. Richard Strauss was verboten as well until 1953, when Violinist Jascha Heifetz played a Strauss sonata -a performance that later moved a zealot to clout him on the right wrist with an iron bar outside his hotel. Now the orchestra's directors have decided that "the time has come for a change . . . because of the paramount demands of freedom of art." So, presumably, Wagner and Strauss will now be heard in Israel-unless someone in charge heeds the sort...
...demand "a shot of lemon squash." Even the land's harsh justice is being relaxed-in a quiet Saudi way. Rather than being beheaded, murderers are simply shot nowadays. Thieves still may lose a hand; but it is first pumped with painkillers, the wrist is wrenched from the socket to avoid any broken bones, and the hand is amputated with sterilized instruments rather than with one grisly swipe...
...catalogue of Ike's complaints is considerable: swollen and painful wrists and hands; a touch of arthritis in the left knee, presumably the result of an old football injury; bursitis in the left elbow, similar to some old trouble in his right shoulder. But neither for him nor his fellow sufferers is any preventive medicine effective. Indeed, it took Walter Reed's expert doctors weeks of tests before they could put the label "osteoarthritis" on their patient's wrist pains. After that, the prescription was as simple as the diagnosis had been painstaking: aspirin to ease...
...cracked somewhere behind the crowd. Police raced through the neighborhood until they found four young boys playing with a rifle that had discharged, slightly wounding a housewife in the crowd. Unruffled, the Queen Mum went trout fishing in Lake Wanaka, catching nothing, despite her fine fly-fisher's wrist. She did set some sort of local record as the only angler who ever waded in wearing hip boots, sports jacket, and a large string of pearls...