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...because of a bathing suit. The one-piece white swimsuit was worn by nubile blonde Becky Marshall, 17, as she won a Fourth-of-July beauty contest to name "Miss Spirit of America." Trouble was, Becky's father, Charles Marshall, was the minister of the Hobbs Street church. Aghast, the elders of the church fired Marshall. When 251 of the 371-member congregation petitioned for his reinstatement, the elders refused to budge. Now more than 200 of Marshall's supporters have followed him into exile to open a new church. As for Becky, she's going...
...borrowers who were very tough in resisting his demands for repayment. Worse yet, a few months ago, Manny reportedly announced that he wanted to divorce his wife to marry a flashy blonde modeling student he had set up with an apartment and a new Cadillac. The Mafiosi were aghast. For one thing, divorce suits often expose embarrassing financial arrangements. For another, jilted wives have a way of blabbing their troubles. Don Carlo's decision was final: paramour yes, divorce no. On May 18 Manny vanished...
Chiang Kaishek, Nationalist China's 84-year-old President, seemed aghast when it was first proposed to him that Vice President C.K. Yen, 66, resign his added post of Premier and that the generalissimo name his own son, Chiang Ching-kuo, 62, to fill the vacancy. Would that not, the Gimo demanded, be unseemly? Would it not seem to be the beginning of a dynasty...
...When the Environmental Protection Agency announced tough new anti-pollution rules for autos last year, Detroit was aghast. "Arbitrary," said General Motors Chairman Richard Gerstenberg. Henry Ford II declared that his company could not meet the standards-a 90% reduction in hydrocarbon and carbon-monoxide emissions by 1975-and that the timetable would require "suspension of most U.S. automotive operations...
Doctors and top military brass, who have previously regarded him as a hope less basket case, come running and are aghast at his message: kill me. The request is refused. No one will accept the responsibility for his death or acknowledge publicly his continued existence...