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Abraham Gordon, 34, described how Eichmann was personally implicated in beating to death a Jewish teen-ager accused of stealing cherries from an orchard: "The screams lasted about ten or 15 minutes, then stopped. The door opened, and Eichmann came out. He was a little disheveled; his shirt was sticking out, and I am almost sure that I saw bloodstains. I heard Eichmann mutter two words in German, 'Ubriges Mistvolk' [superfluous garbage people]." Minutes later, the "swollen, bloody" corpse of the teen-ager was dragged away...
After eight hours of sampling, the judges settled on a simple dish: dilly casserole bread. To homey, 56-year-old Mrs. Leona Schnuelle, Crab Orchard, Neb., went the $25,000 first prize. A veteran contestant, Mrs. Schnuelle has won such prizes as $500 (for judging cattle), a trip to Florida, an assortment of appliances and furniture. She tried nine times before she won the bakeoff...
...back seat of a black convertible, clusters of people on the sidewalks cheered, shouted, waved flares and sparklers. The motorcade stretched three blocks as it rolled through Evanston's Fountain Square, on through Wilmette's main crossroads corner. Jammed into the parking lot at the Old Orchard shopping center in Skokie was a crowd of more than 20,000, gathered in caravans, some of which had come from neighboring southern Wisconsin. Scattered through the crowd were homemade signs proclaiming HE'S OUR MAN. or spelling out the candidate's name in separate letters, one per placard...
...slapping Democratic Governor Albert Rosellini won renomination for a second term against lackluster opposition, though he ran far behind other state officials, all from his own party. Winner of the G.O.P. nomination was the man who might be able to turn Al ("The Rose") Rosellini out of office: Spokane Orchard Owner Lloyd J. Andrews, 40, the state superintendent of public instruction...
...many causes of the French Revolution was the royal tax on brandy, which the victors hastened to repeal. Napoleon reinstated the tax in 1806, but he generously allowed any Frenchman with his own vineyard or orchard to distill tax-free up to ten liters of pure alcohol a year (equal to more than five gallons of 100-proof brandy). Since then, through two empires, two monarchies and five republics. French peasants have guarded their home stills like so many Kentucky moonshiners-and French politicians have cherished the bouilleurs de cru (distillers of the countryside) as zealously as U.S. politicians protect...