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...Ford pickup truck to look over the stock-market quotations. One morning last week he got into his truck as usual, waved goodbye to his wife, and attempted to start the engine. There was a thunderous explosion, and Bill's broken body fell near the driveway, 15 feet from the pile of junk that had been a truck...
...coffee the President has taken since his heart attack, one of his aides brought word of official gifts: from the White House staff, flowering plants and shrubs; from the Cabinet, quinces; from the 48 state organizations of the Republican Party, Norway spruces-all to be planted along the driveway of the President's farm at Gettysburg, Pa. "We . . . are joined with a great human host in wishing you new health, long happiness," read the birthday message from the Cabinet. The President got a great belt of laughter out of a gift from the White House reporters: a pair...
...Libertyville. Among the stolen items: a big polar-bear skin, stationery, a 300-lb. safe (empty). A couple of days later the phantoms struck again, but took nothing. Next night somebody tried to pry open the trunk of Ellen's car, parked in the estate's driveway. Now infuriated to the vaporization point, Mrs. Stevenson fired off to local newspapers a press release that conjured up a vision of a pioneer woman patroling her homestead veranda with a shootin' iron. Her unsentimental sentiments: "Effective immediately, any person found trespassing on the premises after dark will be given...
Curb Service. In Frankfurt, Germany, after police let it be known that a recently stolen auto belonged to Judge Johannes Kuwatsch, his car appeared in his driveway two days later freshly waxed and gleaming...
...Bethesda, Md.: "Dear Lyndon: I am sitting on my little farm recuperating from bronchial pneumonia. They are making hay out here. But now the tractor has broken down; the hay truck is broken down; the hay wagon has collapsed, dumping 50 bales of hay in the middle of the driveway, and my farmer has lacerated his arm on a hay hook. Besides, it is hot. I think I will just go back to bed, cough for a while, and take it easy. And that would be the best thing you can do, too. Cordially, Adlai...