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Ervil claimed credit for the death of the "impostor and false prophet," but he failed to lure any followers from the community that his brother had founded. From San Diego, Ervil issued warnings to the townsfolk of Los Molinos to repent, but few listened. Then, on the night after Christmas in 1974, Ervil's disciples roared through the community in two trucks, tossing Molotov cocktails into the adobe huts and shooting people as they fled into the dusty street. Two were killed and a dozen wounded...
...There was this little village in Europe which annually celebrated a Strawberry Festival, at which all the townsfolk came to buy and taste the sliced, diced, tarted and pied fresh strawberries. Springtime arrived and the town was flooded and covered with posters announcing the traditional Strawberry Festival. But something was different about the posters one year: If you looked closely at the posters' fine print, you would read: 'Due to the shortage of strawberries, prunes will be substituted...
...Sheriff Keith V. Long, 57, whose gruff manner and thick downstate drawl seem right out of In the Heat of the Night. Trouble was, Reporter Charlene Hettinger, 39, and a colleague, Edith Brady, 22, kept running into brick walls as they tried to check the story out. The local townsfolk and officials were afraid to talk. Recalls Hettinger: "We were buffaloed...
...money. In this reincarnation, the setting has become San Francisco in the 1890s. Volpone has become Foxwell J. Sly, played with shark's-tooth gusto by George C. Scott. Rich and childless. Sly feigns grave illness in order to arouse the hopes of avaricious, fawning and wealthy townsfolk who hope to become his heir...
...reasons of his own, Billy has chosen to adopt a buffoonish public persona when the reporters come calling. That did not help him much with the townsfolk. "I joined the church when I was twelve years old," he likes to say, "and I've been back there three times since. Correction-five times...