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...delegates for the opening session of the General Assembly, a dour-faced old man stood across the street holding aloft a hand-lettered sign: THE U.N. is A FARCE. Nobody seemed to take notice except a group of high-school students waiting for a bus nearby. One of them tore out a page of notebook paper, scribbled a few words on it and hoisted his rejoinder: DON'T KNOCK...
...from a farmer whose barn had just been blown down in a fierce storm. Marshall reached for a cigarette-and kept on reaching, Jim McCutchan, manager of Greenfield's I.G.A. grocery store, was hooked again after three days. "I kept reaching in my shirt pocket," he says. "Almost tore a couple of pockets off. Now I'm back smoking more than ever...
...that the house can be preserved and restored as a Wyeth museum. The producer and his wife paid a visit to Gushing to sign the papers, and Wyeth was so delighted that he and his wife engaged the Levines in an impromptu dance on the front lawn. Inside, Wyeth tore off a piece of wallpaper bearing his design for a new studio and presented it to his admirer. Grinning, he said, "Now you have...
...ordered a prisoner to fetch him a rag to clean his shoes. The man refused, and Williams turned to Arthur, who also refused. "It's my lunch time," he said. With that, Williams fired his shotgun from a distance of not more than 20 feet. The pellets tore into Arthur's face, skull and body, leaving him blind in both eyes and partly paralyzed on one side...
...backyard to dust and littering it with Polaroid film waste. Mrs. Bass, though, rejoices that the vision has brought her 78-year-old husband back to churchgoing. She is undisturbed by the variety of reported visions ("Everyone's seeing what they need") and by the relic hunters who tore her fig tree apart for souvenirs and crushed what was left of it. ("Maybe the Lord intended for them to take it home...