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Since posing as a deliveryman is a favorite trick of burglars, many luxury apartment houses require the doorman to accept all packages. After a number of sanguinary holdups, one fatal, bus drivers have no access to cash (passengers must use tokens or take scrip in change). Some athletic events in public high schools have been canceled or played unannounced because crowds have gone on the rampage at earlier games. "A lot of us-and I was one-kept saying that it couldn't happen here," says Mrs. Tom Wicker, wife of the New York Times columnist...
...solely responsible for Kennedy's death, District Attorney Jim Garrison's performance was a crashing letdown. The state produced no evidence whatever, as Big Jim had said it would, linking Shaw with Oswald's murderer, Jack Ruby. Though it found eyewitnesses who claimed that the fatal gunfire came from directions other than the Texas School Book Depository, where Oswald was stationed, no witness purported to have heard shots from more than one location -another Garrison assertion. One eyewitness to the Shaw "plot," New York Tax Accountant Charles Spiesel, admitted to a penchant for discovering conspiracies-most...
...enable him to live and work for long periods under the sea, the project has been beset by delays. First there was a steel strike; then some of the steel that was delivered turned unexpectedly brittle at low temperatures. Redesign of the oxygen system was called for after the fatal Apollo fire, and that was followed by a series of seawater and helium leaks. At week's end no one would predict how long it will be until Sealab is again judged seaworthy...
...Cambridge we had allotted ourselves $1.50 a day for food, drink, and bed. This was under the assumption either that things would improve as we raised more money or that it might be possible to hustle food from unsuspecting friends. Both of these assumptions proved false and nearly fatal...
...there is little evidence suggesting that old-young marriages are any more fatal than conventional alliances. But many experts, such as Sociologist James Peterson, are pessimistic about the whole business. "As the man ages," says Peterson, "he tends to withdraw, while she is active and vigorous and still wants to go. If he dies, even though they might have been happy, there is the problem of premature widowhood, especially if there were no children." U.C.L.A. Psychiatrist Ralph Greenson agrees: "Either the man does not live long, or after a while they find that they do not have much in common...