Word: stones
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Those Who Love, Stone...
...Austin's Penthouse Apartments. There he stabbed Margaret Whitman in the chest and shot her in the back of the head, somehow also breaking several bones in her left hand with such force that the band of her diamond engagement ring was driven into her finger and the stone broken loose. "I have just killed my mother," Charlie wrote in a hand-printed note addressed "To whom it may concern." "If there's a heaven, she is going there. If there is not a heaven, she is out of her pain and misery. I love my mother with...
...south end of the mall, Austin Patrolman Billy Speed, 23, one of the first policemen on the scene, took cover behind the heavy, columnar stone railing, but a bullet zinged between the columns and killed him. Still farther south, 500 yds. from the tower, Electrical Repairman Roy Dell Schmidt, 29, walked toward his truck after making a call, was killed by a bullet in the stomach. To the east, Iran-bound Peace Corps Trainee Thomas Ashton, 22, was strolling on the roof of the Computation Center when Whitman shot him dead...
...ancient kings who did their days in stone...
...ever a building marked a turning point for its designer, it was Edward Durell Stone's U.S. embassy in New Delhi. With its gold-leaf columns, lacy grills and inner water courtyard, it won him architectural accolades round the world. "I have been a marked man ever since," muses Architect Stone, 64, by no means unhappily. At home, the New Delhi embassy triggered commissions that include the just-started John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington and the soon-to-rise 50-story, marble-sheathed General Motors Tower in Manhattan...