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With the clangorous repetition of a pile driver, tragedy has repeatedly battered the family of Dr. Sam Sheppard. Three times in six months the convicted wife killer had followed his relatives to their graves: first his wife Marilyn; then his grandfather-in-law; then his mother, a suicide (TIME. Jan. 17). Last week Dr. Sam, handcuffed to a deputy sheriff, looked on grimly as the body of a fourth relative was lowered into the ground. His father. Dr. Richard A. Sheppard, 64, had died of cancer, virus pneumonia, and a weariness of life...
...Work. Prince and general drove together to the palace of the Duque de Montellano, a drab pile of masonry on the Paseo de la Castellana near the U.S. consulate, which is to be the prince's new home. In a reception room, a score of privileged grandees and their wives waited with half a dozen of Juan's former high school classmates. The prince shook hands all round. Said General Martinez de Campos, taking the prince by the arm and leading him to the center of the room: "Now, if Your Royal Highness pleases, we will...
...money pile is Louisville, a city that is better known for bourbon than Beethoven, and probably always will be. But the Louisville Orchestra has just rounded out its first year of a four-year plan that has made it the world's busiest performer of new music: under a $400,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation (TIME, Jan. 18, 1954), it has commissioned and played a new work for almost every week in the year. Records and tapes are played on Louisville's closed circuit and radio programs are also sent to the Voice of America...
...traffic situation in the Square is extremely bad," said McCann. "During rush hours buses pile up at the kiosk and create a serious problem. If it were eliminated, the traffic problems would be greatly eased...
...alternate Doug Manchester between the first line and defense and used Crehore to replace him with Cleary and O'Malley. This combinated accounted for three of the varsity goals as Manchester netted the sixth Crimson tally at 14:01 of the second stanza, slamming the puck past a pile-up in front of the Indian goal...