Word: bags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From his sleeping bag Phillip Bennett, 16, looked up and saw the top of the mountain "cascading down on us." As his parents tumbled from the trailer, a great wind rushed through the canyon, lifting the children, sleeping bags and all, into the air. Irene Bennett saw her husband grab one of the children, hold on to a sapling with his other hand and straighten "like a flag on a flagpole." Then, as he let go, the mountain crashed down around them in an avalanche of rocks, shattered trees and earth. Next day only Irene Bennett and Phillip were found...
...Frances and Richard Lockridge (192 pp.; Lippincott; $2.95), sets some highly improbable booby traps for the Lockridges' nice, likable people in their quaintly respectable Connecticut town. The authors are such old hands at making their characters and backgrounds believable that the reader is persuaded to accept the whole bag of outrageous melodrama: hanky-panky with a million-dollar will, baffling telephone calls in the middle of the night, mysterious footprints on the terrace, the fatal mugging of a key suspect, pursuit by a killer through a raging summer storm. Deserving of Favorite Sleuth status: Detective Nathan Shapiro of Homicide...
...netted only two additional senate seats, lost about three house seats. But by a peculiar gentlemen's understanding of gentlemanly Virginia politics, the segregation-moderation issue was sharply tested in three critical senate seats that the opposition tried to take by every trick in white supremacy's bag. Almond-backing moderates won them so handily that the diehards could hardly believe the vote ("Good God! Are you sure...
...Mixed Bag. In Taree, Australia, bitten in the arm by a snake, Charles Peters plugged his arm with a rifle to make it bleed, was fined for carrying a firearm on Sunday...
...through most of the night on a train westbound from Chicago, Ike's grandson, David Eisenhower, n, and ten other lads played cards (David insisted that it was poker), resolutely fought off sleep. Arriving in Denver in the charge of a Secret Serviceman, David shouldered his heavy duffel bag, visited his ailing great-grandmother Elivera Doud, then rejoined his pals for a ride to Skyline Ranch, a boys' camp where he will rough it for five weeks...