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Lawmen guess Dallas hightailed it back to Paradise Hill, a one-blink junction in northern Nevada. Bloodhounds tracked his scent to a barstool, then to an unmade bed in a nearby trailer and finally to an abrupt end at Highway 95. Though every waitress and cowhand between Boise and Reno seems to know Dallas, no one admits spotting him since the jailbreak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Idaho: A Killer Becomes a Mythic Hero | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...successful sale, though, was a good fake ID. A friend made one for me which I was occasionally able to use. The ID's ultimate success came at a restaurant where I was eating dinner with my family. When the waitress asked to see my ID, I showed it to her and watched my parents' mouths drop. "We'll talk about this later," my father told...

Author: By Richard L. Meyer, | Title: In Search of the Holy Stuff | 12/13/1986 | See Source »

Roberts spent the second semester of her junior year England working as a translator and waitress in a small hotel. The Government concentrator says she felt her time at Harvard was going much too quickly. "It didn't make sense for me to try to choose a career or grad school without having lived in another culture...

Author: By Allison L. Jernow, | Title: Getting Away From it All | 10/9/1986 | See Source »

...future wife, a woman whose unlikely name, Tabitha Spruce, seems to have been plucked from a Stephen King coven. She remembers him as an imposing figure, a "campus institution" who wrote a weekly column called "King's Garbage Truck" for the school newspaper. Recalls Stephen: "Tabby looked like a waitress. She came across -- and still does -- as a tough broad." After graduation they married; when he was unable to find a teaching position, he labored in a launderette for $60 a week. "Budget was not exactly the word for whatever it was we were on," King later wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: King of Horror | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

...what of Rita Ratchen these days? "I see it as a natural phenomenon," she said over coffee the other morning in the LK Restaurant down the road from the soybean tank. As she spoke, a waitress came over with a tally sheet from the home office, showing that the establishment's volume since Jesus was sighted has moved it from 53rd place in a 55-restaurant chain to third place. "It is caused by the lights and the rust," Rita went on, "but I believe the Lord permitted it to happen. Just as I believe the Lord permits things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Ohio: a Vision West of Town | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

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