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...next hours, local and state police scoured the area. FBI agents, alerted to a possible kidnaping, began pouring in, interviewing the parents of the 19 girls and seven boys who had vanished. Two California highway patrol helicopters joined the biggest search in the state's history...
...next morning, a red, white and blue Greyhound bus escorted by two highway patrol cars wheeled into Chowchilla with the 26 weary pupils and their driver. A couple of hundred joyous parents, friends and reporters greeted them with cheers, whistles and applause. Meanwhile, the police issued bulletins for three white males traveling in two vans...
Throat cutting has become the ritual form of execution, and each side has settled on a favorite dumping ground for victims. In the Moslem zone of Beirut, for instance, one busy repository is a murky space beneath a highway overpass. Its counterpart on the Christian side is a bridge 150 ft. above the Dog River on the road from Beirut to the renowned Casino du Liban. Bodies are simply tossed from the rail of the bridge, which has become a family sightseeing attraction. Cars double-park while occupants ogle the bodies far below without being bothered by the stench...
...week, when he pleaded guilty to a drunken-driving charge. He was fined $165 and ordered to enroll in a state-run driver-rehabilitation program. Nobel Prizewinning Author Solzhenitsyn and Wife Natalya have learned Western ways too fast. She was at the wheel of their van when a Kansas highway patrolman pulled her over for doing 76 in a 55-m.p.h. zone. But no jail awaited Natalya or the startled author of The Gulag Archipelago. Instead, they received a brisk lecture on traffic customs, U.S. style, and a $25 fine. Hit hardest was Woolworth Heiress Barbara Hutton, who was assessed...
...about a point below the going rate. On a $40,000 loan, that translates into monthly payments of 5 $307.57, v. $336.35 on a higher-interest mortgage. The buyer of a car rated by the Environmental Protection Agency at 25 miles per gallon or more on the highway qualifies for a four-year loan at 8.75%; the buyer of a gas guzzler pays 9.5% or more. Ten-year, 8.75% loans are available on fuel-saving craft such as sailboats...