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...play with Star Wars toys. Those items sold briskly this Christmas, as did women's underpants labeled "Bloomie's" (for Bloomingdale's, the big Manhattan department store) and hundreds of other expensive baubles for the kitchen, bedroom, bath and body. When the buying spree ended on Christmas Eve, U.S. retailers, as exhausted as their customers, could look back on their most successful Christmas ever...
...film is based on the famous Starkweather murders, in which Charles Starkweather and his young girlfriend Caril Fugate went on a shooting spree that resulted in ten deaths in several Western states...
...killing spree-reminiscent of Charles Manson and his "family"-began five years ago in the Baja California community of Los Molinos, 169 miles down the coast from San Diego. There, Ervil's older brother, Joel, patriarch of the Church of the First Born, established a settlement in 1963 as a haven for polygamous Mormons. With Ervil as second in command, the community attracted more than 200 followers, nearly half of whom were excommunicated Mormons (the church banned polygamy...
...about 25. Yet they frightened West Germany into a state of paranoia. Financing operations through frequent bank robberies, the gang set up bomb factories and, through their contacts with international terrorist groups, bought arsenals of weapons and ammunition. Suitably armed, the German terrorists embarked on a killing and bombing spree. They vented their rage on "consumer capitalism" by placing bombs in Frankfurt department stores. They struck at the hated Ami (unflattering German slang for "American") by setting bombs in U.S. Army headquarters in Heidelberg and an officers' club in Frankfurt; they shocked German legal authorities with their cold-blooded...
...combine Histadrut called a desultory one-hour strike, the majority took the bad news in stride. What annoyed many people most of all was that there had not been, as usual, any advance leaks of the measures, so housewives were unable to go on a last minute bargain-buying spree...