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...this Saturday morning, seven Ku Klux Klansmen are sitting at a table in the Holiday Inn coffeeshop eating grits and scrambled eggs. Wives and children have been put at smaller tables. Out behind the inn, a dozen Mississippi state highway patrolmen are clustered around the trunk of a car, joking and passing out bullets like jelly beans as they draw a day's supply of ammunition. "Did you count 'em? I give you 18, didn't I?" says one. "Now, you know I can't count," comes the reply. One of them tells me they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Mississipi: The KKK Suits Up | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

...dusk deepened, the woman did not turn on the light but sat looking at the television screen. Their set had a special channel for watching the colony playground. The silent black-and-white image revealed her son balancing himself on a tree trunk, while his fat friend kept falling off; except for the two of them, the playground was forsaken. The woman's eyes glistened with tears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Formidable and Unique Austerity | 6/19/1978 | See Source »

...lesbian girl of Khartoum A maiden there lived in a large market-town A scandal or two A tail behind, a trunk in front A tangled web indeed we weave

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An Unapologetic Anthology | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

...anonymous woman phoned a Rome newspaper that Moro had been released on a coastal road south of the city, police launched a ground and air search that lasted four hours. They found nothing. Next day, after another caller said Moro's body had been stuffed into the trunk of a car near his residence in Rome's Trionfale district, police pounced on that area. Again they came up emptyhanded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Moro Tragedy Goes On | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

Forget the fact that Elmblad carries the team's equipment in the trunk of his Fiat 124 Spider, club status means that a team is ineligible for the state championships, which the women's nine missed out on last weekend...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: A Cold Draft for Curry | 5/5/1978 | See Source »

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