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...September 1809, his affairs in confusion, the governor headed back to Washington. On the way, according to a traveling companion, he twice attempted suicide. Then one night, while Lewis was lodged in an isolated cabin on Tennessee's sinister Natchez Trace, two shots rang out. In the morning he was found dead. Suicide? Murder? Nobody knows, but Author Dillon thinks it was murder. When Lewis stopped for the night, he was carrying more than $100; in the morning his pockets contained 25?. He was buried in the woods, and his grave was all but forgotten. To his family...
...this point, the phone rang, and I felt so sorry for the poor secretaries that I decided to write the CRIMSON and ask people not to call the math department...
...Bells rang in the lobbies of Cairo's domed National Assembly one evening, and its 360 members scurried to their seats to hear a special message from President Gamal Abdel Nasser. It was time, Nasser had written, for Parliament to decide who will be the next President. Noting that his current term expires March 25, he urged the Assembly to nominate "whomever it sees fit." Almost as if he were considering retirement, Nasser declared: "I consider my self lucky to have had the honor of participating in public service...
Motion Picture rang both Jackie and her sister, Princess Radziwill, into its cover act: WITH SADNESS WE REPORT: WHY JACKIE'S SISTER is A BAD INFLUENCE ON HER. In the past year, said Motion Picture, Princess Radziwill, described as a "jet-setter," has insistently urged her sorrowing sister "into this eddy of meaningless movement." With dismay the magazine also reported that Mrs. Kennedy had actually been seen in Shepheard's, the Manhattan discotheque that is "one of the jet-set's favorite rendezvous...
Long past midnight, the phone rang in a motel room near Miami. The caller spoke swiftly. Minutes later, a New York City detective named Richard Maline stood before Locker 0911 at the Trailways bus station in downtown Miami and opened it. Inside, he found two small, waterlogged leather bags containing several tissues. Wrapped in the tissues were a couple of handfuls of gems, including the golfball-sized, 563.35-carat Star of India sapphire. Thus were recovered nine of the 24 sapphires, diamonds, rubies and emeralds that had been taken from New York City's American Museum of Natural History...