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That quiet drama ended a 19½-month chase-one of the longest and most intensive in U.S. history-and climaxed a bizarre odyssey that had a special and disturbing fascination for Americans. They had been appalled by the violence of the whole affair: the strong-arm kidnaping near a college campus, then the bank robbery in which Patty herself wielded a gun, then the surrealistic, nationally televised shootout that left six of her companions dead. With some apprehension, parents debated just why Patty, the heiress to a celebrated fortune, had become a self-proclaimed revolutionary. Many people claimed...
...this. Rice would never have been MVP the way Lynn may be, and it was doubly hard to gouge out a niche when such a running comparison was going on. It was Lynn who made the fabulous catches that saved games, and catches are the images that stay frozen longest--the enduring moments of baseball lore. The mind can catch them better, better than any hit short of a Mazeroski or Thompson job. And Rice was expected to do well--he won the Triple Crown in the International League last year. It's only been one season, but there...
Democrat John A. Durkin was elected to the United States Senate from New Hampshire yesterday, ending the longest Senate campaign in history...
...River and overlooking thundering Victoria Falls, was spread over 14 hours. While it came to nothing, there was one consolation for Smith's foes. Mused Bishop Abel Muzorewa, head of the African National Council that claims to speak for Rhodesia's 5.8 million blacks: "It was the longest 30 minutes of Mr. Smith's life...
...prospects in the U.S. would boost his country's sagging economy. The Europeans' concern reflected not only the growing economic interdependence of the world's industrialized nations but their declining hopes for a rapid recovery from what has, outside the U.S. also, been the deepest and longest recession since World...