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...attempts to snuff out his life within three weeks. Moore and Fromme added to the modern chain of Bremer, Ray, Sirhan, Oswald?all tormented Americans driven to try to kill a public figure. It is a chain with links in U.S. life that reach all the way back to Richard Lawrence, who tried to kill Andrew Jackson, and John Wilkes Booth, who did kill Abraham Lincoln, the first President to be assassinated. Inevitably, the question arises: Is there something wrong with American society? Why does America seem to have so many kooks willing to kill to exorcise some private demon...
...followers' devotion to Manson goes on unabated. "If Charlie told a girl, 'Hey, baby, go out and snuff [kill] yourself,' she would do it," says a current friend of the family. The girls, he says, believe Manson's arrest was part of a grand design. "He told them that he would go underground and then rise again some day, like Christ," reports the friend. "They think his imprisonment is just that−a forced period underground. They spend all their time preparing themselves for the day he is released−the day he rises...
Indeed, the well-stocked herb garden can supply potions and lotions for almost any need or occasion. Basil, still used in snuff, "maketh a man merry and glad," vowed 16th century Herbalist John Gerard. A potion to keep one awake? How about lemon balm, the "scholar's herb," which medieval students drank as tea to keep them alert during exams? A pot of basil in a kitchen window is said to discourage flies; fennel, which has a mild licorice taste, also keeps fleas away from dogs ("Plant fennel near to kennel"). Many herbs make subtle dyes for cotton, silk...
When I reached out to douse the light after reading the 1776 issue, I was amazed to find no candle to snuff...
...year. While brothers and sisters are struggling through some serious negotiations at Brown University, The Harvard Crimson is spending its time defending the lackadaisical minority recruitment effort ("We can't find anybody"), and the Administrative Board is laboring over a monkish set of Noise Rules that could snuff out any "disturbances during the day that would hamper study or contemplation...