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Burr went over the edge on a bitterly cold Monday morning last week. Before setting out in his aging pickup, the strapping 6-ft. 2-in. Burr strode into the kitchen of his farmhouse and shot his wife Emily dead; friends said he evidently could not bear her having to live with what he was about to do. He then drove six miles to Hills (pop. 550), Iowa, and entered the Hills Bank & Trust Co., where he owed more than $400,000. After a teller refused to cash a $500 check because his account was overdrawn, Burr fetched a loaded...
...economic signs these days are mixed. Interest rates on five-year Treasury bonds have fallen from 9.62% to 9.13% since August, and unemployment in November was 7%, its lowest level since President Reagan took office. But growth is not strong, and there are few signs of a coming pickup. The gross national product in the third quarter grew at an annual rate of 4.3%, but fourth-quarter expansion is expected to be slower. Some Wall Street sages, though, do not worry about trying to figure it out. Says Barton Biggs, managing director at Morgan Stanley: "The best kind of market...
...Crimson opted not to punt, and Steinberg smacked a solid boot to the Tiger 30, where the ball took a crazy bounce. Urquhart lunged at the ball and made a wonderful pickup on the pigskin...
...result of changes initiated last spring, K-House students no longer have the luxury of door-to-door garbage pickup. The move, instituted by the Kirkland House masters and superintendent, is designed primarily to reduce cluttering in the corridors and to facilitate sweeping and cleanup by custodians, officials said...
...North American Soccer League. He was a star player on the Fort Lauderdale Strikers from the team's founding in 1977 until its dissolution two years ago. Fowles kept in shape by playing in amateur leagues, as he was doing one night two weeks ago during a pickup game in Dade County's Bunche Park, outside Miami. As half time neared in the scoreless match, a noisy squabble several hundred feet from the game erupted in gunfire. The gunmen charged onto the playing field, firing wildly at wit- nesses to their fight and anyone else...