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...mood for either nostalgia or humor yesterday. A series of phone calls to Russian headquarters at 680 Park Ave. in New York City succeeded in completely confusing the hapless Russians. According to the Lampoon, however, arrangements have been almost completed for the return of its Ibis. A carload of editors is expected to drive to New York today to take...
...Atlantic City, ten harassed drivers who operate the six special school buses in the northwestern suburban area decided they'd had enough, announced that they hoped never again to have to drive a carload of schoolkids. Their union thought they had valid reasons for their strike. Among them: two boys had threatened to slash one driver with switch-knives unless he drove them directly to their destination; a group of girls had stripped another girl and thrown her panties into the street; students had a habit of hanging smaller kids out windows, of slashing cushions, unscrewing seats, pulling emergency...
...target, dead or alive, seemed to be fair game. One rancher near Glenwood Springs, hoping to protect a pet doe and her twin fawns, watched helplessly as a carload of hunters, guns blazing, killed the fawns and wounded the doe. Two days later he found the doe dead. The indignant rancher braced his dead pet up near the roadside, then sat back and waited to see what would happen. He did not have to wait long...
Test of Success. As the boys grew, they were sent to work after school as a matter of course, and Ma herself often helped piece out the family finances. Once she bought a whole carload of apples and made $100 profit selling, them to the neighbors. "Your Ma," muttered Pa almost fearfully, "is acting like a crazy woman." Pa, a man of set ideas and enormous faith in his own mind, sometimes thought his children were going off their trolleys, too. But in the end, even Pa had to admit that the Loves-not, of course, excluding himself-had done...
...miners who were trying to find out whether its uranium veins were worth working. Wade V. Lewis, an experienced hard-rock miner and president of the company that owns the Free Enterprise, soon discovered that the visiting invalids assayed higher than anything in the mine: every carload was a pay-lode...