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...S.A.O. because he planned "to flee the country when it was in danger." At industrial Bone, where 1,500 years ago St. Augustine preached the City of God, a bomb destroyed a Moslem tenement, killing ten women and children, and Europeans drove off rescuers with rocks and pistol shots...
...stump for the local Democratic candidate for the state legislature. At the University of Oklahoma, Albert majored in political science, was student council president, Phi Beta Kappa, a tournament bridge player, a sprinter, a 118-lb. wrestler (he now weighs 168), a member of the chess team and the pistol squad. The boy from Bug Tussle also won a Rhodes scholarship...
...first three installments adding up to $1,100, then reneged on the final payment. Desperate for the money, Marino went to his friend's apartment and demanded the last $500. Raffa refused, and the two men got into a slugging, furniture-throwing fight. Finally Raffa grabbed a pistol and shot Marino three times in the chest. Marino died on the way to the hospital, and soon afterward, Raffa surrendered to the police. Perplexed as to how to enter Marino's death on the police blotter, Reggio Calabria's cops finally settled on the notation: "Killed...
...curtain is up. The theater is dark. A woman screams. Someone eerily whistles Three Blind Mice. Pistol shots clap the air for the 3,745th time. Thus Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap moved into its tenth year in residence in London's Ambassadores Theater last week...
Surrounded by a robed retinue of 20 that included four sword-and-pistol-toting bodyguards and one of his four current wives (lifetime total: at least two score), Saudi Arabia's King Saud, 59, descended from a chartered TWA jet at Boston's Logan International Airport and turned himself in to the nearby Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. Immediate prospect for Saud: six weeks of treatment for what was reported to be a gastric ulcer...