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Squeaky Fromme, daughter of a well-to-do aeronautical engineer in Redondo Beach, Calif., was one of the first people to join Manson's demonic tribe in 1967, after she dropped out of El Camino College in Torrance, Calif. Her life in the self-styled family revolved around drugs, depraved sex and devotion to Manson, who made her his "main lady." As she testified at his murder trial in 1971: "We were riding on the wind. You could say that it's a nonsense world of Alice in Wonderland, but it makes a lot of sense. Everybody makes...
...enough that the sheet music of Maple Leaf Rag, published in 1899, sold more than a million copies and made the son of a former slave well-to-do almost overnight. Not for Scott Joplin. As a youth he may have earned his living playing honky-tonk piano by night in a string of saloons and bordellos in the South and Midwest. But what few realized was that he was expertly tutored in harmony, counterpoint and the works of the classical masters...
...well-to-do have long used marriage contracts to protect their wealth from the caprices of divorce courts. But now contracts are increasingly popular among educated, middle-class couples who have their own misgivings about traditional marriage. Feminism is playing a driving role. So is the rising divorce rate. Torn between the need for companionship and the notion that marriage is a trap, many of the young want their expectations and rules for married life clearly laid out in a contract...
Though Rotel never advertises, its tours are booked up months in advance. A typical group of Rotelmates includes not only cash-strapped young and elderly travelers but also well-to-do tourists with a taste for the offbeat. "We cater to a special sort of clientele," Höltl admits. "Most of those who sign up come back." From his tour profits, Rotelier Höltl has built a deluxe, 200-room Bavarian-style inn in his native Tittling. There, at prices ranging up to $40 a day, Rotel veterans who have seen the world from the windows of Holtl...
...classified advertisement in the Saigon Post read: "Fairly pretty high school girl, 18, of well-to-do family, seeks adoption by or marriage with foreigner of American, French, British, German or other nationality who would take her abroad legally to enable her to continue her college studies outside Viet Nam at her own expense. Please telephone...