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...Beside him was the usual complement of four Secret Service agents, including Agent Larry Buendorf, who had wrested the gun away from Fromme. Other agents were on the perimeter of the presidential entourage. A former prominent Manson family member, Linda Kasabian, was at her home a few miles from Milford, N.H., when Ford stopped there; but the Secret Service and a state police officer kept her under close surveillance throughout the President's stay...
Although cities have the highest rates of crime, the rate of increase is now actually greater in the suburbs (up 20% last year) and in rural areas (up 21%). In Milford, Conn., once a peaceful small city on Long Island Sound, assaults were up 303% and burglaries 78% in 1974 over 1973, and the figures are still climbing. The main culprits there are gangs of white, middle-class youths; they have so terrorized some residents that they do not report thefts and beatings for fear of reprisals...
...young honeymooning couple, Brad (Bill Miller) and Janet (Abigale Haness), suffer a car breakdown near a castle ruled by a bisexual drag queen named Dr. Frank 'N' Furter. In his lab, the evil doctor, leeringly played by Tim Curry, has fashioned a blond centerfold playmate, Rocky (Kim Milford), who is sort of male. Frank wears torn black mesh stockings, black garters and black lipstick. Rocky is clad in something smaller than swim trunks and larger than a jock strap. He tenses his torso and biceps like an old Charles Atlas ad plugging rock muscularity...
This new erosion at the grass roots has been felt in Congress. Those who have always talked tough are tougher than ever. Connecticut's Lowell Weicker went back to New Milford last week roaring: "The nation has taken offense to being treated like idiots ... If the explanations and illogical statements emanating from the White House during the past months had come from anyone other than a President of the United States they would have been labeled for what they are-trash...
...high school All-American from Milford, Conn., transferred to Harvard after one term at Duke, where he averaged 19.3 points and shot 57 per cent from the field in eight games with the Blue Devil freshmen...