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Business might be better at the Pomfret Spirit Shoppe, mused Proprietor Bernard Patenaude, if only the cars on Route 169, between Pomfret and Woodstock, Conn., didn't tear by so fast. So he had a big sign painted...
...Warning. Moore's trek through the South began on April 21. Starting out from Chattanooga, he talked to many men along the way. One was Floyd Simpan, 41, proprietor of a country grocery on the road near Collbran, Ala. Unlike much-traveled Bill Moore, Simpson had spent nearly all his life within ten miles of his store; he did not finish high school until after he was 30. On the morning of April 23, the country storekeeper and some pals saw Moore plodding toward them. They read his signs and talked with him. Recalls Simpson: "We couldn...
...over now, and they still walk around that way," said a cafe proprietor on the Rue Saint Jacques, gesturing at three officers of the peace standing on the corner with submachine guns slung under their coats. "I have nothing against de Gaulle--I don't play politics--but who do they plan to shoot those things at? They should take them away...
Manhattan is full of blues in the night. Toots Shor, contemplating the thinned-out ranks at his bar, says ruefully: ''We're getting re-educated for drinking at home." Proprietor Billy Reed...
Died. John Edgar Breitenbach, 27, proprietor of a Wyoming mountaineering equipment store and member of a 20-man U.S. expedition sponsored by the National Geographic Society and several others, now climbing Mount Everest; when an ice wall collapsed and buried him as he worked to improve an ice route cut the previous day on Khumbu Glacier at 17,500 feet. He was the first American to die while trying to climb the world's highest mountain...