Word: companion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arville Garland one night last year found his runaway daughter Sandra, 17, lying nude with an 18-year-old hippie in a seedy apartment. Garland testified that he struck the boy with his revolver and the gun discharged, killing Sandra. He then went berserk and killed Sandra's companion and two boys who shared the pad (TIME...
...recollection of the four years during which she and her husband wandered as nonpersons through the small cities and towns of Russia. They were harassed by officials, plagued by spies, kept from steady work and forced to borrow, beg and live in the corners of cold rooms. Their constant companion was the realization that they could be arrested at any time for any reason. "Give us a man and we will make a case" was a big office joke among the secret police...
...companion on the trip, an Israeli reserve officer, started by placing a 9-mm. pistol on the ledge under the dash of our Ford Cortina. His gesture seemed symbolic of the atmosphere along much of the border. We began at Mount Hermon, the snow-covered peak that cornerstones the border between Israel, Lebanon and Syria. There we spotted the first of the yellow bulldozers that are everywhere in the occupied territories, scraping and pushing, widening and straightening, lifting boulers or rearranging sand. It is said that Israel has more bulldozers per capita than any other nation; I can believe...
Rice was Merton's boon companion at Columbia University, his godfather for baptism in the Catholic Church, and a lifelong friend. It is nonetheless a fuller, richer portrait of Merton than any available, partly because Trappist censors seriously bowdlerized Merton's own books. The handsomely designed work is full of Rice's kaleidoscopic recollections; tantalizing snatches of Merton's books, letters and poetry, both published and unpublished; pages of photographs; even a few breezy, Picasso-like nudes drawn by Merton shortly before he entered the monastery. Merton the Columbia undergraduate emerges as an accomplished rapscallion, occasionally...
Frank Vaughan Jr., 17, of Homes lead Street, Roxbury, was charged with trespassing, Robert Tonis, Chief of the Harvard police, said yesterday. The charges against his companion, a juvenile runaway from Longview Farm, Walpole, were trespassing with intent to burglarize. "He carried a screwdriver and a knife," Tonis said...