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...Rena Frye, 49, did interfere when California highway patrolmen stopped Marquette, 21, on suspicion of drunken driving last Aug. 11. His brother Ronald, 22, was a passenger in the battered grey and white Buick. Hearing that her sons were in trouble, diminutive (5 ft.) Mrs. Frye came from her house near by, scolded Marquette, and asked the officers if she could take the car-which her husband needed to drive to his job. A hostile crowd gathered, and the two boys got into a scuffle with the cops. Mrs. Frye jumped on one officer's back, was dragged...
Nervous Rub. The entire House of Commons cheered Wilson's news, and Tory Opposition Leader Ted Heath even rose to welcome him "warmly" after his "long and arduous mission." But the euphoria did not last long. Two days later, the British Prime Minister was back in Commons, grey, grim, and rubbing his cheek nervously with the signet ring on his left hand, to report that "it is now clear that there is no prospect of agreement...
...trees snapping in our faces as we jolted forward. Then we hit a stretch of mud and puddles and got stuck. We got out only after and hour and a half of pushing and pulling, with the help of half a dozen men. I was well splattered with grey mud by the time we were through...
...like a jeweled idol released from a total eclipse, stands the sun god, the Inca, immutable, glorious, incandescent. In another scene, bitter light stipples the Spanish soldiers' helmets and swords as they pantomime their nail-clawing ascent of the Andes, and the men seem wearily stitched into their grey-hued armor as if they had enlisted for eternity. Spookily, stylized Peruvian masks glare, peer and revolve in ritual chorus like puzzled primordial birds. Royal Hunt dazzles the eye as a spectacle...
...seemed needed to save Minnesota's fading mining industry. After a century of use, the 110-mile, Z-shaped Mesabi Range (Chippewa Indian for "sleeping giant") began running out of the rich ore that once was the base for 60% of all U.S. iron and steel production. The grey taconite rock in which the remaining ore was pocketed appeared too hard and the ore of too low a grade for profitable mining. The pits and shipping docks slowed down, and miners lost their work. Northern Minnesota slowly became an aspen-covered Appalachia...