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...Pruneda gang. For Refugio's 30 bullets, he received 90. His companion, a U.S. Army deserter who was only interested in buying a pound of pot, was found alongside the Tennessean with 60 bullets in his body. In another grisly episode, an independent dealer was found in a clump of bushes near the Rio Grande. He had been decapitated with a machete...
...watched the union men in a small clump by what was to be the main aisle. They were talking about us. I was thinking about them, and also my increased awareness of my importance. I had just been told to stay calm, and to expect to take abuse...
...people aboard took off for Brussels. Four minutes later, the pilot, Captain Stanley Key, 51, radioed: "Up to 60," a routine message asking for permission to climb to 6,000 ft. He never made it. Suddenly, the plane plummeted to the ground and burst into pieces near a clump of trees four miles from the airport, killing everyone aboard...
They drive back and forth between the Roosevelt Hotel and the United Nations, a clump of austere functionaries clad in sober blue tunics, baggy matching trousers and caps straight out of a '20s movie. Style setters for the Beautiful People? Who would believe it? Yet so it seems. Chairman Mao's favorite jacket in particular-and just about anything else Chinese-is selling in Manhattan boutiques this fall like rice cakes at the Spring Festival...
What Pound did do was cut, clipping off as many as 40 lines in a clump. His special target was a heavy-footed parody of Pope's Rape of the Lock. Though the couplets concern the ablutions of a fleshly lady named Fresca, they show Eliot at his most priggishly professional, and Pound briskly informed Eliot: "You cannot parody Pope unless you can write better verse than Pope...