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...accidental; a 28-year-old model, lured like earlier victims by Glatman's pose-for-pay pitch, struggled free when he attacked her in a car off the Santa Ana Freeway, held him at bay with his own pistol until a state highway patrolman appeared. To police, the pint-sized ex-convict glibly announced he had strangled three other women, led police to the decomposed bodies of two of them on a sun-bleached strip of desert southeast of Los Angeles. He volunteered the 22 pictures, explained proudly how he settled on fine-grain Panatomic-X film for black...
...sons, one a partner in Goldman, Sachs and the other an executive at Owens-Corning Fiberglas. His chief recreation is his work; he shows only slight signs of slackening his pace. Says Weinberg, who takes only an occasional cocktail: "My grandfather drank half a pint of whisky a day and lived to be 90. Maybe at 75 I'll try that...
...quite liberal enough to ignore her race, refused to endorse her candidacy. But a milk-bottle collection in Houston's Negro districts boosted funds to some $4,000, and Candidate White began a hard campaign. Pointedly, she talked of issues, e.g., Houston schoolchildren pay 4? more a half-pint for lunchtime milk than children in surrounding districts because the hyperconservative school board has refused to accept federal aid. She did not orate for integration. But she visited Negro schools, some of which lack libraries, cafeterias, permanent buildings, reported wryly: "I have found them very separate, but not quite equal...
...colonial days, Kentuckians (then Virginians) with a whisky taste had trouble chasing away the demon rum. The rum-makers once put through a law boosting the legal price to $15 a half pint. The Bourbon County grand jury even indicted James Garrard, a Baptist minister who later became Governor of the state, for illegal whisky selling. But by 1789, tenacious Bourbon County distillers had finally given corn likker an old Kentucky home. Though ten years ago bourbon was only 13% of total domestic whisky sold, last year it was 47%. Last week bourbon reached another pinnacle: in nationwide newspaper...
Every student in the College will be contacted by an entry solicitor and asked to pledge a pint of blood for donation from Dec. 8 to 12. There is a similar plan for Radcliffe. Solicitations will last through Friday...