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...Austin, Texas, and asked for several boxes of rifle ammunition. As he calmly wrote a check in payment, the clerk inquired with friendly curiosity what all the ammunition was for. "To shoot some pigs," he replied. At the time, the answer seemed innocent enough, for wild pigs still abound not far from the capital. The horror of its intent only became obvious a few hours later, when the customer, Charles Joseph Whitman, 25, a student of architectural engineering at the University of Texas, seized his grisly fame as the perpetrator of the worst mass murder in recent U.S. history...
...Europe One tourist pleasure many Americans overlook is buying phonograph records in Europe. The selection is enormous; prices, while higher, are not prohibitive, and there is something to satisfy just about every taste. In the middle ground between classical music and rock 'n' roll, both of which abound in European record stores, are Portuguese fados, Neapolitan tenors, Scots pipers, Spanish flamencos, German beer songs, French chanteuses, Welsh miners, nightclub and music-hall performers, tin ny little village bands and Tyrolean yodelers. There are even some familiar U.S. singers (and songs) in unfamiliar languages...
...large proportion find their girl friends at Bradford, Briarcliff, and other out - of - the - way places that abound in young ladies from good families. Club members often have two girls--one they love and one they lost for -- and whoring is still practiced by members of many clubs. "There's a woman you have a sexual attraction for and another you don't think of that way," Birge said. "But she speaks well, is pretty, and plays the harpsichord...
...background a ghostly old mansion or château looms menacingly through the fog. Following the chilling tradition of Wuthering Heights and Rebecca, the Gothics thrust innocent and high-minded young women into gloomy households where husbands and lovers are breathlessly suspect, where hidden rooms and violent traditions abound, where hidden doors creak ominously, lights go out mysteriously, and improbable coincidences are just too much for words...
...missionary in Kerala, India for 17 years, I disagree that "the vast majority" of the catch of shrimp, lobster, mackerel and sardines is sold for export, and that Keralans "largely ignore the sweet potatoes, bananas, pineapples and coconuts that abound" in the state [Feb. 25]. Fish and shrimp are part of the regular diet of millions of people, and the other items mentioned are eaten daily. Unfortunately, the prices of such commodities have risen tremendously recently...