Word: curiousities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good reason for its dismay. In the same Port Elizabeth police building where Political Activist Stephen Biko was held for four days last September before his highly suspicious death from a supposedly self-inflicted bump on the head (TIME, Sept. 26 et seq.), another black prisoner died under curious circumstances. According to police, the prisoner leaped without warning to his death through an open fifth-floor window during a security police interrogation. When announcing the incident, Minister of Justice James T. Kruger declared: "The fact is that it's very difficult to stop someone from committing suicide...
...supported by pairs of shapely legs. A bag of brass tokens, embossed with the motto "Good for all night," went for $30. David Grayson, a rancher from southern Texas, paid $65 for the outhouse, which he planned to re-establish back home "just for nostalgia." One of the most curious objects of all was a chest of drawers with money slots labeled Thelma, Velma, Miss Lilli, etc. The triumphant new owner, who paid $30 for it, identified herself as Geneva Hooker...
Italian Popes. "It is curious that the Holy Spirit, who is supposed to preside over papal elections, does not seem to think that people of other national backgrounds are qualified to run the Church...
...Keith Carradine as the voyeur-dissipant who takes little Brooke away from all the evil and loses her later. Carradine's particular brand of stuporous non-acting was good once, in Nashville, when everyone thought he was acting, but now we all know he's just sitting there. A curious, but unaffecting, film...
Both the solemnity of style and the curious lacunae are explained by the fact that the manual is published by the U.S. Army, which this month is dispatching copies to its 1,433 chaplains. Many sects were included because military commanders and chaplains had already asked headquarters for guidance about them...