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...prove his story, Henley led police to a boat shed in a secluded section of Houston where Corll had rented a vacant boat stall. It was there, Henley said, that many of the victims would be found. Trusties from a local jail began digging, and within hours they had exhumed eight corpses from a 6-ft.-deep mass grave. All were teen-age boys; some were wrapped in plastic bags, others covered with lime to disguise the stench of decay. The corpses were stacked one above the other, separated only by thin layers of dirt...
...Boston council agreed to construct a central market in the city in 1634, but the market was not opened until 100 years later. In 1738, the market building was destroyed, but a new building was constructed, and in 1740 the first Faneuil Hall stall was leased...
...unexpected, as much of a stumbling block to credulity as most messiahs. His name is Simon Stern. He was born in 1899, the son of Polish immigrants to New York's Lower East Side. Simon's father works in a tailor shop. His mother tends a vegetable stall. Simon's life is devoted to a most worldly obsession-money...
Although they have less than 10% of the seats in the Diet's all-powerful lower house, the Communists have nonetheless managed to stall or stymie the government of Premier Kakuei Tanaka on several major issues. Through street demonstrations and a boycott of parliament, which the other opposition parties joined, they forced Tanaka to drop a redistricting reform bill that would have virtually ensured the Liberal Democrats a permanent majority in parliament. They also played a major role in the political maneuvering that led to the embarrassing cancellation of Emperor Hirohito's planned state visit...
...finished even faster, but he is fastidious about his mealtime manners. He likes to work on the mash for a while, then refresh his taste buds with a sip of water or a few wisps of hay. From time to time he pauses to tidy the floor of his stall by picking up stray kernels. He is the neatest glutton at the track...