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...then there was one of those god-awful family get-togethers--was it what's her face's wedding or cousin George's funeral (he was twenty-nine and died of fright)? Anyway, after fifteen minutes of kisses on the cheek and handshakes with good-natured (oh yes) ribbing about long hair and campus activism you realized the only way to survive was to get hopelessly drunk. And so, mellow and impish, you explained to your maiden aunt that it would be great to do away with marriage because it would end all discusson about pre-marital sex, and that...
...with chemicals that set fires and sparked explosions. In Texas, 13 cars of a Kansas City South ern freight train carrying inflammable liquefied gas were derailed south of Texarkana. Six families were evacuated when a fire seemed likely. No one was injured in the two derailments. But the rolling fright continues...
...altitudes by inexperienced Biafran ground controllers. The sight of fire-bright exhausts in the African night is slim comfort to other flyers. Says Swedish Pilot Ulf Engelbrecht: "If all the pilots some night were to turn on rotating beacons and clearance lights, a dozen of them would die of fright at their proximity to one another...
...liberal experience, the experience of the technological, affluent class, to scribble messages in letter-to-the-editor and hope to have them accepted. With long range plans and comprehensive goals, America lives in quiet, apprehensive fright...
...young groupie crawling along the ledge outside his second-floor hotel room, he opened a sliding glass door to let her in, but she slipped, fell into the ocean-breaking her wrist-and had to be fished out by the Coast Guard. Ellison had barely recovered from that fright when another girl walked through his door and asked him if he was a friend of the Stones. When he said yes, she stripped and flopped onto...