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...family were off in Colorado, and the gate-crasher was making no threats. All he wanted was to speak to the ambassador from Pakistan. So the guards waited patiently for four hours while the intruder delivered an unintelligible harangue. When Pakistani Ambassador Sahabzada Yaqub Khan failed to appear, the stranger asked the Secret Service to broadcast his demand for a meeting. The guards complied, and the man listened to the message on his car radio. Then he plucked a white cloth from his pocket and waved it in the air in surrender. The guards found that he was carrying...
Stonehouse lived quietly in Melbourne, listening to Bach and Beethoven tapes and sunbathing at his residential club. But the presence of the tall distinguished stranger was noticed by police already on the lookout for another missing Englishman, Lord Lucan, 39, who disappeared after the November slaying of his children's nanny (TIME, Nov. 25). Stonehouse was arrested on Christmas Eve. The next day he pleaded before a Melbourne magistrate to be allowed to remain in Australia and start a new life; the court is expected to rule on his case this week. "I only wish," Stonehouse said, "that...
...seriously, it is because he takes so seriously the needs they are failing to answer. Just as all art strives to be music, "every organization," Sheed assumes, "strives to be a religion." The true believers signaling wildly inside every American joiner, he concludes, "already wander the streets looking for stranger cults, wilder religions. The more bloodless buy books called You're Really a Terrific Person, desperately making the most of what's left when you lose defining associations." In the end, outside-insiders play prophet rather than reporter and are subject to a certain amount of repetition. Sheed...
...John Stonehouse was a mysterious man. "He was a complete loner," says one parliamentary colleague. "I don't think he had a single close friend in the House." Even his wife recently observed sarcastically that "I was apparently married all those years to a man whose life was stranger than fiction." So, perhaps, was his death. On the afternoon of Nov. 21, Stonehouse, 49, seemingly in good spirits, set off on a jog down the beach at Miami's Fontainebleau Hotel, in full view of the lifeguards. Nobody saw him enter the water, but that evening attendants found...
...graveyard, get a name, get a birth certificate, then a Social Security number, and you're a new person." That may seem unlikely for a man who hoped to be leader of the Labor Party. But until some new evidence turns up, virtually all explanations of the stranger-than-fiction case of John Stonehouse have equal plausibility...