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That pride, perhaps mingled with psychopathy, boiled over in Burr last week when he went on a calculated shooting spree, killing his wife, a bank president and a fellow farmer before taking his own life. The grotesque tragedy reflected the agony of America's beleaguered farm belt, where in the past three years thousands of spreads have been foreclosed and dozens of banks have shut down in the worst economic crisis since the Depression. In the wake of the Iowa killings, Midwesterners wondered whether the frustration of the struggling agrarian class would lead to more violence...
...Crimson did much of its scoring in spurts, reeling off eleven unanswered points midway through the first half and going on a 20-6 spree midway through the second...
...Cross, led by All-American candidate Bill McCaffrey, stormed past the Crimson in the first half of the strength of a 14-4 scoring spree midway through the first half...
...spree midway through the second half by Boston College (now 3-0 and a good bet to appear on next week's NCAA top-20 poll) put the Eagles up by as many as 41 points and the contest completely out of reach...
...cafes along Haight Street are sometimes under the proprietorship of veterans of those heady days, but more likely they are the ventures of mercantile types who sense retail opportunity in buying into the Haight's historic consciousness. It's a decent place for a walk and worth a shopping spree for expensive used clothing, but it's not a way of life...