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...revolver used to kill Dallas Patrolman J.D. Tippit, is proof that he bought both under an alias (A. Hidell). On the eve of the assassination, he caught a ride with a coworker, Buell Wesley Frazier, to make a rare weeknight visit to his estranged wife in a Dallas suburb; he claimed that he wanted to pick up some curtain rods. Although his rented room in Dallas had all its needed rods, next day he carried a long, thin package in brown paper to work with Frazier. On this day-the day of the assassination -Oswald spurted some 50 feet ahead...
...unprepossessing gray stucco building in the working-class Parisian suburb of Boulogne hardly looks like an official seat of government. No bronze plaque or carved insignia identifies the occupants of the four-room ground-floor apartment at 56 Avenue Jean-Jaures as ministers of a republic that is almost a half-century old. Inside, however, there are clues. A large reproduction of Picasso's Guernica adorns one wall, and a small, faded red, yellow and purple flag flutters above a desk cluttered with state documents. Here last week, as they have for the past 30 years, the ministers...
...boils at suggestions that he should retire. "It's tiresome as hell to lose, but I still enjoy the game." He has retreated from the glitter of Manhattan's night life and rents a house in a quiet neighborhood of Garden City, a Long Island suburb. "I've only been to New York City once in the past eight weeks -the traffic's too damn bad," says Namath. But not as rough as the Sunday traffic on the field...
...calm spring evening seven years ago, Edward Michaels, 68, a retired caterer in the Chicago suburb of Northlake, Ill., finished his chop suey dinner and told his family he was going out for a walk. He never returned...
Countless glimpses of common people's intimate life have been preserved, the kind that might set tongues to clucking today even in a swinging suburb. In Groton, Mass., one-third of the 200 people who joined the church between 1761 and 1775 confessed to fornication. A small Maryland Episcopal church chastised 13 fornicators or adulterers in a single month. The fact that there were confessions and corrections shows that simple permissiveness did not prevail, but neither did simple virtue...