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...faithful in suburbia together often enough to provide moral support for all. Said he: "We ought to take a cue from the churches in this matter. They have long made it a practice to visit newcomers and invite them to church. Suburban business houses have a 'Welcome Wagon.' But we Democrats have been content to let newcomers arrive with no reception at all-and because they're left alone, they've often joined the other church and started trading at the other store...
...Kansas City's French Institute of Notre Dame de Sion, where little Bobby Green-lease was in the first grade, and tricked a nun into letting the boy go with her (TIME, Oct. 12). She took Bobby to Hall, who was waiting several blocks away in her station wagon. Then, according to her original story to police, she went shopping, returned to drive with Hall to St. Joe and noticed a large bundle under a blanket on the vehicle floor; Hall told her it was "dog food...
...later, Ledterman and O'Neill left the duffel bag at the end of a highway bridge in a heavily wooded area ten miles east of Kansas City. They drove away. Carl Hall scrambled up from a hiding place under the bridge. He put the bag in the station wagon parked in a thicket near by. Bonnie Heady, he said later, was sprawled "in an alcoholic stupor" in the car. Hall did not wait round to count the money-three times larger than any ransom ever paid in the U.S. He never did get around to counting...
...Lying. Meanwhile, a bullet had been found embedded in the floor mat of Mrs. Heady's station wagon. Ballistics tests proved the slug had been fired from the .38-caliber revolver found in Hall's room when he was arrested. Bloodstains, which Hall had tried to clean up, were also found in the station wagon...
Modern Times. In Springfield, Ill., five-year-old Marsha Howard reported to her family that kindergarten offered only "tricycles and bicycles and a little red wagon for little kids," refused to go back because "they don't teach typing or arithmetic...