Word: porches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Private Sessions. That does not seem to bother the four Merseysiders and their ladies-the three Beatle wives, Paul McCartney's girl friend and George Harrison's sister-in-law-as they take private meditation sessions with His Holiness on his rooftop porch, or sit down to vegetarian meals in the communal dining room. Just how much longer they will stay to enjoy such back-water bliss is uncertain. Though the course lasts for three months and confers on those who complete it a sort of guru status of their own, the Beatles' manager hinted last week...
Untrammeled Spirit. Wyeth returned to paint Christina Olson many times, cradling a kitten in her arms, or sitting on her porch. He painted her house 50 times, and an upstairs room in it in Wind from the Sea, which shows the curtains billowing as Wyeth once saw them, when a long-closed window was suddenly thrown open. His last portrait, titled Anna Christina, was completed last summer...
...hour later, two hippies clambered to a porch outside the bathroom window and looked in. They saw Billy's body in the tub. His wrists had been slashed and a broken wine bottle thrust deep into his chest. Billy's mother, Carol Metherd, 24, sat silent on the puddled floor, her hands, T shirt and slacks soaked with blood. The two horrified hippies smashed their way into the room. Carol later curled on the floor in a fetal position; her only sign of life was the rolling of her eyes...
...found that Mrs. Udine Harp's body had not been destroyed, and an examination disclosed numerous bullet wounds. County police in Boise City, Okla., soon learned from 14-year-old Bruce, one of her three sons, that he had seen a rug-cleaning salesman on the front porch shortly before the fire. An itinerant was picked up on suspicion of being the salesman, but the investigation continued. The husband, Lester Harp, was brought to the district attorney's office for further questioning, and eventually the three Harp boys were also brought in. To clear up some points, Assistant District Attorney...
...never did. Settling down to husband his fortune, he raised chickens, sat in his front-porch rocker shelling pecans and rubbernecking at the tourists who came to rubberneck at him. Plain-spoken to the last, he always regretted having given up his Speaker's role for the vice-presidency, which he said "wasn't worth a pitcher of warm spit...