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This 2-1 lead held up through a scary fourth quarter. Harvard's play, which was below par all afternoon, fell even farther apart near the end, and the last ten minutes was one big shooting spree for the Green...
...rapist's semen), and that he may drive a bronze and cream 1959 Chevrolet (which was spotted near the areas where Mrs. Hochhausler and Mrs. Messer were killed). Understandably, jittery Cincinnati was beginning to wonder if it is in for a reign of terror like the killing spree that had Boston women besieged for two years...
They may not all know what they are doing, but their frenetic activity is paying off handsomely for the Post. By financing an uninhibited hiring spree, Kay Graham, 49, has pumped new life into the paper she took over from her husband Philip after his suicide...
...grew out of a temporary group formed just after the Deadwyler incident. It was called TALO, "Temporary Alliance of Local Organizations," and represented a coalition between extreme nationalists; civil rights groups, militant and moderate; and middle-class businessmen. Its original function was to avert another spree of violence which seemed very possible at the time...
...nation that opened its frontiers by violence and the gun, Whitman's sanguinary spree had an unsettling number of precedents, both in fiction and in fact. The imaginary parallels are grisly?and suggestive?enough: from The Sniper, a 1952 movie about a youth who shoots blondes, to The Open Square, a 1962 novel by Ford Clarke, whose protagonist climbs a tower on a Midwestern campus and begins picking people off. (So far as police know, Whitman had neither seen the movie nor read the book.) Even the fiction, however, pales before the fact. There was Scripture-reading Howard Unruh...