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...knows herself I'd eat somewhere else. I thought they would throw me out, but I reached for my old standby and they didn't dare." There were perils as well as pleasures. Once, while riding alone through Arizona's Skeleton Canyon, McCauley ran into a passel of Apaches. "They fired and my horse fell. I fired twice and two of them fell from their horses, but the balance was after me. As they went by in a lope I let one more of them out of his saddle. All day long I layed flat on them...
Passing out souvenir pens by the passel, Johnson explained that he had hastened to sign the bill "because we just cannot overemphasize and we cannot overdramatize and we cannot overreact to this nation's growing problem of water supply." He used the northeastern drought as an example of how bad things can get, said the long-term goal must be the "drought-proofing" of metropolitan areas by desalinizing sea water (see U.S. BUSINESS...
Bored one night on the subway, and reflecting on my ill-spent youth, I noticed a passel of pre-paid post cards dangling overhead. Wayne School in Chicago offered me--free and with no obligation, a card said--a booklet that would tell me how I could complete my high school education at home. I sent in the card...
...commission has been assailed as a "FreeMasonic" vehicle for a "Moscow-directed campaign" by Franco's government, as a passel of "lunatics" by Peking Radio. But the invective merely convinces Secretary-General Seán MacBride that he occupies a challenging job. "Invariably our views displease the governments who practice injustice or seek to weaken the rule of law," says MacBride, 60, a former Irish revolutionary whose own love of justice blossomed in many a British jail...
...nobody say Tennessee don't stand by its own. When Memphis radio station WHBQ announced a contest for most popular rock-'n'-roll singer, and some misguided teen-agers sent in a passel of votes for them furrin Beatles, the five-man city commission tabled its budget debate and unanimously adopted a resolution "calling on all citizens of Memphis and elsewhere to support Elvis Presley in this contest." Explained Mayor William B. Ingram Jr., "More than any other person, Elvis has carried abroad with him a fine reputation for Memphis. I hope some day we find...