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...when understood alongside the history of Alabama, a dark and brooding state. Back in the oldtime slave days, the conjure women used to say that the state's destiny was firmly fixed on an awful night long before, when stars fell on Alabama-in a huge, scarring meteoric shower. Alabamians still tell that legend on themselves-and in a curious way it explains much about Alabama as a state of deep superstitions, fierce prides, sudden violence and voiceless fears...
...Democratic Governor Pat Brown's $3 billion state budget, speaker Unruh took advantage of a quorum-requiring "call of the house" to lock up foot-dragging Republicans overnight in the state capitol; he made the Republicans even madder by offering them the use of his own razor and shower bath if needed. Cried Republican State Chairman Caspar Weinberger, ordinarily a mild-mannered fellow: "These are tactics Stalin, Hitler and other dictators used...
...dinner, new-born from the shower in evening dress...
...shower was two flights down, but at Paris' Hotel des Deux Continents last summer I first met my European wife. How did I find hotel and bride? Guided by Arthur Frommer's book! Even those who can afford Europe on $10 or $20 a day shouldn't travel without the Frommer. Fielding is for people over...
...Security Area at Panmunjom. At 5:30 a.m., a Jeep bounced along the rutted road carrying three U.S. enlisted men of the 9th Cavalry Regiment, bound for an observation point on a nearby hill. They never made it. The North Koreans blasted the Jeep from the road with a shower of grenades. Pfc Charles Dessart, 19, of Drexel Hill, Pa., and Private David Seiler, 24, of Theresa, Wis., were killed; Pfc William Foster, 26, of Baltimore was badly wounded...