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Shocked. Gravel-voiced Lionel Stander, long type-cast by the movies as the rundown heel, strode into the hearing room with two luscious blondes and a lawyer, demanded that the television lights (for films, not live TV) be turned off. "I appear on television for entertainment or philanthropic purposes only, and this is neither," he rasped...
Finally one morning last fall, after four sleepless nights of watching over his wife, Joe got out his six-gun, strode into Maria's kitchen, "shot her, one-two-three-four-five-." Last week, on trial for murder, Joe pleaded that he did not go to Guadalupe to kill Maria but to get back a photograph of his wife. He fired only after she refused him and reached for her shotgun. But his defense was based in large part on the implication that he too was a victim of a belief in witchcraft...
...Addressed the "spring conference" of Republican women, 1,290 strong. Greeted by a flurry of waving napkins when he strode into the Presidential Room of Washington's Hotel Statler, Ike got off to a lighthearted, cheer-rousing start: "It'has been proven, I think, that the average of intelligence among women ... is a trifle higher than among men. And I can understand it, because ... a greater percentage of women [than of men] voted Republican last fall." More seriously, he said that the U.S. seeks nothing from other nations "except the decency, the respect, the consideration that America herself...
Uniformed police cleared the way for ticketholders, and plain-clothes men kept their eyes peeled, but by concert time the big hall had filled up quietly to its 2,700 capacity. With the hall's doors closed against sounds of street rumpus, burly, 57-year-old Walter Gieseking strode onstage. The crowd let out an encouraging whoop, clapped for half a minute. A few listeners rose to show their respect...
...bustling rotunda of London's King's Cross station, a stocky, grim-faced little man strode briskly through the hurrying crowds this week, peering at the passing faces through horn-rimmed glasses. A few old hands at the station nodded recognition, and the word, went around: "Mr. Sutherland is back again." John L. Sutherland, 70, a Vancouver cement contractor, was back at King's Cross for the sixth time looking for his son, who is officially reported dead...