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...love interest, sophisticated hero and heroine, comic minor roles with plenty of room for hamming it up. Our hero the dashing and debonair if lightly befuddled Jimmy Winter (John Witham), returns to his palatial Southampton estate with his new bride, an insufferably prim young woman named Constance (Innes-Fergus McDade). Unbeknownst to him, however, his mansion has been appropriated by a gang of enterprising bootleggers who have managed to charm their way into the good graces of "The Girls," a sort of Platonic harem that takes care of Jimmy's house while he's away and takes care of Jimmy...
...states, new highway signs carry distances in both kilometers and miles. On I-94 in Minnesota, for example, a road sign outside Fergus Falls reads, ST. CLOUD 100 MILES OR 161 KILOMETERS. Other signs note that 55 m.p.h. equals 88 kilometers per hour...
Scientists know from experience what could happen if a coastal storm should blow up on these dates. Research Scientist Fergus J. Wood, of the National Ocean Survey, recalled last week that a spring tide of 5.2 ft. at Atlantic City in March 1962 was whipped by gusts of up to 70 knots and rose 9.5 ft. above the average low-water mark. Huge waves battered the Atlantic coast. The accompanying floods cost 40 lives and some $500 million in damage...
...gagged, with bullets through their heads, in the trunks of burnt-out cars. Most have been mutilated or tortured. David McGlenaghan, a mentally retarded youth of 15, was killed when gunmen invaded his home and shot him as he lay sleeping. Harry Russell, 23, a male nurse from Carrick-Fergus on the outskirts of Belfast, was found shot through the head in a back alley, covered with torture marks and stab wounds, including a T for "Traitor" burned into his skin...
...FERGUS R. WOOLLEY