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...from a drive-in movie, Schmid took him out on the desert again, showed him the Fritz girls' corpses-only one was even partially buried-and boasted that he had killed them. Acting on Bruns's story, Tucson police rounded up John Saunders, a 19-year-old high-school dropout who had moved to Connecticut, and Mary French, another 19-year-old dropout who was living with her family in Texas, brought them back and got their grisly stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Secrets in the Sand | 11/26/1965 | See Source »

...bored, vacant-eyed teen-agers who hang out at the drive-ins and juke joints along Tucson's East Speedway Boulevard, Charles Howard Schmid Jr., 23, was known as a swinger. A well-muscled onetime state high-school gymnastics champion, Smitty always had wheels, money, tall tales and an inexhaustible supply of available girls' phone numbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: Secrets in the Sand | 11/26/1965 | See Source »

Until he was a high-school senior, McGovern never dreamed of attending Harvard. But by going to the University and then accepting the endorsement of the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) he inherited much of the historical anti-University sentiment in the City, and it was an important factor in the way he ran his campaign...

Author: By Robert J. Samuelson, | Title: How To Lose a City Council Race Once, but Probably Not Twice | 11/23/1965 | See Source »

...Alabamian, who in one felicitous tongue-trip referred to Shelton as the "inferior lizard." During the fruitless questioning of James R. Jones, 37, the Klan's Grand Dragon of North Carolina, his attorney explained that Jones was having trouble understanding the questions because "he does not have a high-school education." Virginia's Grand Dragon, Robert Kornegay, 37, would not even admit that he was a U.S. citizen. The request that most clearly affronted Shelton and his reluctant dragons was the Congressmen's repeated demands for financial records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: Dark Days in Weird Week | 10/29/1965 | See Source »

Ciudad Libertad (Liberty City) is a huge educational complex that covers more than 1,000 acres of former military barracks in Havana. It is the pride of the Castro government; more than 10,000 Cubans study there, taking primary, high-school and technical-school courses. An art instructor laid it on the line: "Children don't have prejudices. They are like fruit on the tree, ready to be plucked when ripe." On the walls were student sketches of Castro with peace doves, Castro standing atop the globe with a radiant smile, Castro at the Bay of Pigs invasion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: The Petrified Forest | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

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