Blog Heap of Links for the day 27 November 2017

A crew of paramedics in Australia made a detour to the beach for a palliative care patient who asked to see the ocean one last time.…

…On this day in 1954 Alger Hiss was released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury. His perjury was involved with being a traitor Soviet spy but he could not be charged with that because the statute of limitations had expired.