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...side.... found Roy 'gentle as a chrysanthemum, smiling as a sunflower.'" Sue, in assuming her mother's role in caring for her Southern family, overcomes her fear of "the Barnes brothers, both of them grotesquely deformed. They couldn't walk, so they put rubber tires around their legs to crawl across the store to get things off the shelves. For longer distances they would get up on little wheeled carts...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Fathers and Sons Children of the American Dream | 5/3/1971 | See Source »

...Architectural Technology Workshop at 888 Memorial Drive has been broken into again, this time by someone small enough to crawl through a 16"x12" window and leave behind a 5" sneaker print...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kids Break Into Design Workshop | 4/20/1971 | See Source »

...just kept trying to run away from him and crawl off the mat. I was called for stalling four times in the last 30 seconds. Once more and I would have been disqualified. Ten seconds more and he would have had me," Galeski says of the match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jay Galeski's Had Many Trying Days, But He Still Letters in Three Sports | 3/30/1971 | See Source »

Before setting out on a pub crawl through Belfast with two young friends from Scotland's Royal Highland Fusiliers, Dougald McCaughy, 23, dutifully telephoned his aunt in Glasgow. "Is everything quiet?" she asked anxiously. He laughed. "Are you kidding?" Three hours later Dougald's aunt received another call from Belfast. On a narrow roadway on Squires Hill, four miles west of Ulster's capital, a pair of schoolboys had found the bodies of Dougald and his two friends, brothers Joseph, 18, and John McCaig, 17. The corpses were heaped grotesquely on top of one another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN IRELAND: An Appalling Crime | 3/22/1971 | See Source »

...advance was kept to a cautious crawl for several reasons. Southeastern Cambodia is flat farmland; the Laotian panhandle is a tangle of dense, triple-canopy jungle. ARVN troops practically had to rebuild the old French Route 9 as they went, and they stopped frequently to set up protective fire bases and send out patrols for as much as six miles to the north and south to guard their flanks. Their vital link to South Viet Nam's Quang Tri province-a force of some 600 U.S. helicopters-was repeatedly socked in by bad weather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WAR: Cautious Crawl Through Laos | 3/1/1971 | See Source »

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