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...from a mental institution. She and her husband Duncan (Barton Heyman) opt out of the New York scene for a creaky Connecticut retreat, and find that they have acquired not only the house but its tenants of yesteryear. Duncan initially dismisses the weird noises and the hostility of the townfolk, every man jack of them with a scar on his neck. And Jessica begins to wonder if it isn't all in her mind. That overheated young hippie Emily (Mariclare Costello) who was living in the house, for instance. Surely she can't be a hundred years...
This week the Safety Board is investigating a Southern Railway derailment in Laurel, Miss., where 13 tank cars loaded with liquid petroleum gas skipped track and exploded. Ten square blocks of Laurel were set afire and two of the townfolk were killed...
...credit-reporting agency in Mississippi filed an investigation by a field agent that quoted townfolk as saying that a female insurance adjuster was "scatterbrained," "peculiar," "neurotic or psychotic." Only after a drawn-out struggle and considerable loss of work was the adjuster able to persuade the agency to delete the words "neurotic and psychotic" from her file...
...Mystery. With the body prepared, the army permitted newsmen and thousands of curious townfolk to file past for a glimpse of the mysterious foreigner, laid out atop a long concrete sink. On into the night, the quiet, stone-faced peasants continued past the body, shining flashlights eerily into the dark, bearded, open-eyed countenance. Even soldiers who moved through the line stood and gaped until a guard barked at them to move along. Two days after his death, Che's fingers were cut off for further fingerprinting, and his body was cremated-an unusual step in a Catholic country...
...statue of a bear from a Leningrad hotel and of changing money on the black market (TIME, Dec. 30). In place of the prison sentence, Wortham was ordered to pay a 5,000-ruble ($5,555) fine. The decision came after a plea by a group of Little Rock townfolk, who had promised to pay whatever fine the court levied...