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Last November, in the strangest congressional election of the year, Clem Miller again got a majority of the votes-four weeks after he had been killed in the crash of a twin-engined plane on Chaparral Mountain near Eureka. California law prohibits any change in the ballot within 40 days of an election, so the Democrats were unable to replace Miller. They kept on campaigning, argued that by electing Miller posthumously and forcing a later special election, the voters could keep the Republican candidate from winning by default. "The people are entitled to an election with a choice of candidates...
Partly they were right; partly they were wrong. Little Giuseppe grew up to be San Giuseppe of Cupertino, one of the strangest saints in the Roman Catholic calendar...
Bomber Threat. The next day, according to an agreement quietly worked out by the U.S. and Russia, there occurred in the seas off Cuba one of the strangest scenes in maritime history. U.S. warships pulled up alongside homeward-bound Soviet freighters while Russian crewmen obediently pulled back the canvas wrappings that covered the long, cylindric objects on the decks. Assistant Secretary of Defense Arthur Sylvester declared that "responsible people of this Government" were convinced that the ships were indeed carrying missiles back to the Soviet Union...
...madness. To Eugene O'Neill, it was home. And this home, the family that nourished and devoured him, that cosseted and tortured him to greatness, the playwright has described with withering hatred and burning pity and heartsick unutterable despair in a tragedy that stands among the strangest and strongest of the century...
Bird Man of Alcatraz. One of the strangest cases in U.S. penal history is that of Robert F. Stroud, who spent 43 years in solitary confinement. As the convict murderer who became a bird expert behind bars, Burt Lancaster gives the finest performance of his career...