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...Successful getaway on April 23, 1967, from Missouri state pen. Ray claims he clambered up a water pipe and used a stolen steel hook to yank himself over the prison wall, but prison officials believe he hid in a large bread crate, and escaped in a delivery truck that carried...
...determined) at the age of 37. Last week Mrs. West was buried, as she requested, "in my lace nightgown ... in my Ferrari, with the seat slanted comfortably." At the San Antonio cemetery where her husband is also buried, several hundred awed spectators looked on as a gray-painted wooden crate, 6 ft. by 8 ft. by 17 ft., was lowered into the ground by a crane. To deter any grave robbers cum 1964 Ferrari buffs, the crate was covered with concrete. And so another gas guzzler bites the dust...
...recruited by conspirators to kill King? According to McMillan, he was plotting the murder well before he escaped from prison by hiding in a large crate used to carry loaves of bread to a prison honor farm (this required an accomplice in the prison). Moreover, McMillan quotes the assassin's brother Jerry as saying that Ray telephoned him from Memphis on the morning of the murder and said he was going to get "the big nigger" the same...
...train now, in the shadow of a mammoth factory; next on a darkened street outside a warehouse at a coffee counter. Third refill costs a nickel. He wanders into a warehouse, following a noise. Through dark passageways of pipes and crate to an open space. It is a street fight, two sleek men clutching bills and taking bets, two bare-chested bruisers facing each other, brown ill-fitting suits and anxious Depression faces crowded around the bare floor that serves as a ring. The bets are in, the bruisers battle: it's no holds barred-kicking, hair-pulling, and annihilating...
...with the Monongahela River, the play doesn't do too well. The poet (John Sviolka) and the old lady (Ellen Brenner) seem worried about problem--sex and death--that the one-act play just can't fully explore. The bus driver (Leo Pierre Roy) is indistinguishable from his old crate; he's just a vehicle for the play, and his last line sums it all up neatly: "Watch your step as you're going DOWN...