Word: blonds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Capricorn semisoft cheese," which goes sour before it can be sold. He is finally carted off to a Texas retreat for the mildly deranged. He might have written his poems in peace here, but mama, newly widowed, reappears to lead him off to a last encounter-with the only blond man in a town full of Mexicans. The man robs and kills Norman-a fitting nonheroic end for an unfitted non-hero...
...forenoon of a blazing August day, a blond, husky young man strolled into a hardware store in 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...
...best first novel out of Britain is Beggars on Horseback (Atlantic-Little, Brown) by James Mossman, 39. A tall, blond and handsome TV personality who was once a British foreign-service staffer, Mossman has written a satire on colonial debacle that is almost as savagely hilarious as Evelyn Waugh's Black Mischief. Mossman sets his scene in a mythical Middle Eastern kingdom on which the British are losing their traditional grip. The incumbent king is a corpulent pederast who splashes in a gold-plated bathtub while his people eat mice and provide entertainment for the sadistic secret police...
...help celebrate Luci's graduation from National Cathedral School, Pat went along. Beth also suggested that Luci be Pat's date at the Marquette senior prom. Freshly unpinned from her most recent steady boy friend, Luci went to Milwaukee with her Secret Service escort, an outrageous blond wig, and a nom de prom (Amy Nunn) to assure privacy. The escapade was successful on all counts -so much so that she invited Pat to go back to Washington to attend her formal acceptance into the Catholic Church on her 18th birthday...
...bought his own car. Yet it was several weeks before Washington gossips realized that Students Jack Olsen and Paul Betz, Luci's previous best beaux, had a successor. The reason for the recognition lapse was simply that her new escort, with his aseptic, athletic good looks, short blond hair and modest mien, resembled any number of the Secret Service agents in Luci's orbit...