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...Russians have done all they could to discourage Jewish religious observance. Since 1956 the number of active synagogues has dropped from 450 to 97. There is only one kosher butcher shop and only one seminary for rabbis in all of Russia. Just before Passover last month, the Soviet government expressed its good will toward the Jews by allowing Moscow's chief rabbi to open a special matzo bakery. Two days later, it was closed down as a health hazard, and customs officials confiscated matzos shipped to Russia by American Jews...
Lumbering frontier justice eventually caught up with the Harpes. Wiley was hanged and Micajah was shot. While Micajah was dying, a man whose family had been wiped out by the Harpes slowly cut off his head with a knife. "You're a God-damned rough butcher," gurgled Micajah, "but cut on and be damned...
...crossed the Atlantic. "Injustice has been done to a great city," roared Chicago's Mayor Richard J. Daley, 61, when he heard that the city of Reading, England, has gone and changed the name of its Chicago Road to Sandcroft Road. Explained Reading's Mayor J.C.H. Butcher: "Residents of the street have nothing against the city of Chicago. They say they just got tired of being asked by visitors where they could check their guns...
Married. Peter Arrell Brown Widener HI, 39, Florida sportsman, great-grandson and namesake of the Philadelphia butcher who parlayed the profits from selling meat to the Union Army into a $100 million real estate empire; and Frances Miriam (Mimi) Crenshaw, 22, Delta Air Lines stewardess; he for the third time (his first wife divorced him in 1958, his second died in a February 1963 plane crash); in Palm Beach Gardens...
...breaks up the affair with an ax. She is adjudged insane and committed to an asylum. After 20 years she comes out on probation to join Daughter Diane Baker, who has been raised on a ranch by an aunt and uncle. Diane takes Lucy out to see where they "butcher the chickens," then shows off the pigs. "We fatten them up for the slaughter." Oh oh, slip of the tongue. Sorry. Lucy looks away. Pretty soon, by golly, a person can't carve a roast for dinner without precipitating a household crisis. Someone scissors through the family album, decapitating...