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...drafty, kerosene-lit shack, the Rev. Harrison Galloway, 85, sat relaxed and in a good humor one day last week as he waited for a man to bring him $85,000 in cash...
About 35 years ago, Baptist Pastor Galloway moved to the sparsely populated farm country of Arlington, Va. and bought himself an acre of land for $300. First he built a shack to live in. Then he built a frame church, with a small pool handy so that everybody could get baptized "good and proper." But Arlington
...looked up his father, who lives on a pension in a Joplin shack, and announced that he was "going to live by the gun." Then he made his way to the hot little desert town of Blythe, Calif., got a job as a dishwasher. On the night before Christmas, Cook disappeared. He bobbed up in El Paso and bought a .32-caliber automatic pistol. After that he started out to fulfill his promise...
Teresa Gonzales is the wife of a bricklayer living in Colonia Mexicana, the dirt-poor shack town of Brownsville, Texas. Now 35, Mrs. Gonzales has had four children in 13 years. The first died in infancy. The next two, both girls, were delivered by dangerous high-forceps methods. Fortnight ago, Teresa Gonzales was to be delivered of her fourth child...
...pool the first communiqué from the conference and send it as a joint dispatch to the three wire services, United Press, Associated Press and International News Service. When the communiqué-the only real news in the meeting-was issued, it was sent down to the radio shack for transmission. Before it could be sent, Smith took his own copy of the communiqué, rip-roodled off to the radio shack and peremptorily ordered the operator, "in the name of the White House," to send it. The trusting operator complied. By the time the pooled message was sent, Smith...