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MANY Chicagoans talk of the suburb of Evanston as the straitlaced capital of the North Shore-national headquarters of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the stodgy bastion of proper matrons and upright WASP gentlemen, all of them scarcely more liberal than the Chicago Tribune's late Colonel Robert R. McCormick. In fact, as City Planner Richard Carter says, Evanston is "a microcosm of a larger city, diversified in income, ethnically, racially and every other way." It ranks high in affluence: a $12,200 a year median income in 1968. Yet Evanston's 80,000 population includes...
...Unfortunately, in the midst of the celebrating that night we did rather destroy the hotel. I spent the better part of the night running around trying to keep the hotel in one piece, putting exit signs back on the wall, returning Coke machines to their normal upright position, and getting players back to their rooms." the manager added...
...reasons for accusing MacDonald seemed to be its view that 1) there was no firm physical evidence of any intruders; 2) part of MacDonald's ripped pajama top was found under his wife's body, suggesting that they had been struggling; 3) a flowerpot was found standing upright, though its contents were spilled out on the floor, indicating staged disorder...
...saying that he had turned Mrs. MacDonald's corpse completely over. Since MacDonald claimed that he had tried to cover Colette's wounds with his torn pajamas, the movement of her body seemed a plausible explanation of why his garment was found beneath her. As for the upright flowerpot, some investigators admitted that they had seen it on its side when they first entered...
...squinted sleepily and saw two stars, reporter with bolted pad and a host of brass hovering in the background. He bolted from bed as if ejected from a smoking jet. His feet never touched the floor as he executed an incredible acrobatic loop off the mattress and landed upright in the the stiffest embrace I've ever seen−bent halfway backward. 'Hi there,' said General Page. 'Just dropped by to say hello.' The airman's eyes were now two fried eggs. 'Hi, sir,' he said through clenched teeth...