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Charles Early and Diane Kelley, together with Douglas, Judy and one-year-old Benjamin Jackson, went on a joyride in a four-wheel-drive vehicle. Careering over the snow-covered countryside, the truck plunged into an ice-covered pond. The adults drowned immediately. The baby crawled from the wreck a dozen yards across the ice, fell into the water and died...
With Ken Kesey at the wheel, the "turned-on, tuned-in Supreme Court forms a rock band and tours the country in a psychedelic bus. Sandra Day O'Connor soars to the top of the charts with her rendition of "You Send Me (to Prison)." "Eat my torts," Justice Rehnquist says. "What are you going to do, take us to court...
...takes it in her hands, and studies what she drew: three children gathering rice in a field. A Khmer Rouge soldier has a rifle trained on them, "to keep them working." Off to the left of he picture is the device. It looks like a wheel with a hollow hub and spokes leading out to the rim. Or perhaps it is a doughnut with lines on it. Three extra lines extend from the outer rim at he bottom, giving the thing the appearance of an insect. At the top there is yet another line sticking out at an angle...
...only the blind and handicapped could borrow from the Library of Congress's several thousand titles on tape. But that year, Duvall Hecht, 51, an Orange County, Calif., commuter, helped found Books on Tape to counteract the cerebral atrophy he felt during his daily two hours at the wheel. Beginning with George Plimpton's Paper Lion on ten one-hour cassettes, Hecht's mail-order firm grew to represent 500 titles and adds 100 new works each year. Although the cassettes can be purchased, most of the company's 30,000 subscribers rent them...
...from the soloists until the entire orchestra begins to fragment, a violin jutting out here, a trombone blasting there. Répons gradually increases in rhythmic complexity as held notes in the brass arch over the busily insistent sound beneath. The impression is of the turning of a gigantic wheel in space. The piece ends quietly on a stationary but disquieted chord; rest is achieved at last, but not peace...