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...Sunday morning in early August when Viet Nam Veteran John Gabron, 22, went on his last patrol. Wearing an Army helmet liner and field jacket and carrying a telescopic rifle, he climbed a sagebrush-covered hill in Los Angeles' Griffith Park. When two park rangers approached in a pickup truck, Gabron captured them at rifle point. As one of the rangers told it later, Gabron explained that "he had lived by the gun and wanted...
Larry Mahan, the sport's biggest winner before Ferguson arrived, hops from town to town in his own Cessna 310. But Mahan took in $64,000 last year. Nonstellar cowboys endure an endless string of sleepless nights as they crisscross Western highways in their cars and pickup trucks...
Californians by the thousands are registering for membership ($15 per person, $25 per couple) in burial-at-sea clubs that for an additional fee provide pickup, cremation and the scattering of ashes at sea. Such clubs as the Telophase Society (the largest, with 9,000 members) and the Neptune Society (7,000) each conduct an average of 50 seafaring funerals every month...
Having to testify, he said, would hinder his ability to give "candid and uninhibited" advice to Nixon in private. So the committee postponed the hearings, to the disappointment of members who had hoped to ask Rush what led the President to predict recently a late-1974 pickup in national production and a downturn in inflation...
...past few seasons as an uncommonly gifted conductor who waddles to the podium through the audience (there is no other approach in Boston's Orpheum Theater, an old vaudeville and movie house), slumps down into a canvas director's chair, then cajoles the dickens out of her pickup orchestra. All these talents were in evidence last week as Caldwell's Opera Company of Boston concluded its 16th season with Rossini's The Barber of Seville...