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...scenes evoked grisly memories of the Manson killings. In August, Retired Insurance Broker Paul Corbett, his wife and sister-in-law were found dead, each shot in the back of the head with a .25-cal. gun, in the pantry of Corbett's $100,000 home in the fashionable Chicago suburb of Barrington Hills. A fourth victim, Corbett's stepdaughter, was dead in the blood-spattered kitchen, shot in the chest with a .30-cal. weapon. A month later Machine Designer Stephen Hawtree, his wife and teen-age son were executed in a similar fashion in the basement...
...little boy caught with jam on his face," and denying that he ever made personalities a campaign issue. There are his speeches on Vietnam in direct contradiction to the facts, his announcement that the invasion of Cambodia was not an "invasion," his interference in the trials of Calley and Manson, lies about the economy, and attempts to cover his and Agnew's bungling. A particularly gruesome moment resurrected from his California campaign has Nixon trying to establish credibility as a state-oriented candidate. "I am running," he declares assuringly, "for Governor of the United States...
...pollsters did not ask why Californians are becoming tougher on this issue. Some researchers speculate that people are getting fed up with such spectacular crimes as skyjacking and Manson-style mass murder. On a more personal level, more and more people are becoming the victims of street muggings and assaults. Although Californians do not demand the death penalty for these offenses, such violent criminal episodes perhaps promote a psychology of implacability and, at least in theory, a taste for social vengeance...
...CHILDREN OF PRIDE edited by ROBERT MANSON MYERS 1,845 pages. Yale University Press...
...time, yet often with attractive energy and at copious length, they wrote to each other monthly, weekly, sometimes daily, for nearly 20 years. What was more unusual, the Jones family saved the letters, all 6,000 of them, 4,000,000 words or more. English Professor Robert Manson Myers selected 1,200, made minor cuts, and knitted the skeins of reply and re-reply into an almost continuous narrative, mostly without intext notes or bridges. Then, in 17 years of fanatic industry, he added 300 pages of biographical notes and index...