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Free Meals. The show is a hit. "We get blizzards of mail," says Prison War den Wayne Patterson. "There's no short age of speaking invitations." So enthusiastic is the public that Denver area Kiwanians recently raised $4,000 to provide the convicts with two station wagons. Some restaurants...
Jungle Drumbeat. During a two-week orgy of systematic murder that fall, when tens of thousands of their people were killed and hundreds of thousands maimed, the Ibo tribal elders of the East lost all hope of reconciliation within the Nigerian union. Fearing for the very survival of their tribe...
Still, whether offering hall trees ("Money won't buy more stylish goods") or watches ("Almost given away"), Sears appealed to a buying public that was then largely rural and firmly bound by the Puritan ethic: waste was sinful, and so were fripperies. But it was also an epoch when...
Enemy Property. The family involvement ended abruptly in 1928, when John's sons sold their thriving business to Wagons-Lits, the Brussels-based sleeping-car company that ran the Orient Express. After Germany invaded Belgium during World War II, Cook's assets in Britain became enemy property. They...
Slowly, everyone began to leave. It appeared for a few moments as if there would be no arrests, no confrontation. But it was just the first stage of the agreed-upon mobile tactics. A crowd of 75 or so left the Common, but returned 15 minutes later. At 3:40...