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...straw boater, the mayor walked the plank and plunked into the seal pool before 300 spectators. Will the aquarium open by Aug. 8, as now promised? Replied Schaefer: "You're going to see a mayor with tape over his mouth." But his lips were not completely, er, sealed. Added the mayor: "Tell the aquarium board chairman that if it doesn't open, he and I go back into the pool and stay there until it does...
Lives of great men all remind us As their pages o 'er we turn, That we're apt to leave behind us Letters that we ought to burn...
...researchers cited as an example a fossil from Kenya, called KNM-ER 1470, which displays a transition stage between the australopithecines to Homo habilis, the earliest human species...
Tipped off by another competitor, a female official at the Miss U.S.A. Pageant in Biloxi, Miss., hauled Deborah Fountain, 25, Miss New York State, backstage and unceremoniously yanked down the top of her swimsuit. Gads! It turned out that Deborah had added a little, er, pomp to her 35-23-35 circumstance. Explaining that she had lost 15 lbs. after the recent death of her younger brother, Miss New York admitted that she had padded the suit's bra with foam. When the strategy bounced back, Miss U.S.A. organizers expelled her from the competition. Fountain countered that some...
...news was distressingly familiar. A poor, black youth had been found strangled to death near an intersection of Interstate 20, just outside Atlanta. William Barrett, 17, a ne'er-do-well with a police record for burglary, had been reported missing only hours before he became the 27th known victim in the string of murders that has plagued the Georgia capital since 1979 and left investigators thoroughly baffled...