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Then things changed a bit. Not until December was there another strangling-and this time it was a 19-year-old, Sophie Clark, a student in medical technology, who was found strangled with three stockings intertwined with a half slip. Next, on Dec. 29, was Secretary Patricia Bissette, 23, with three stockings and a white blouse knotted around her neck...
None of them need have worried. Britain's workers, it turned out, did not cotton to the idea of receiving a mere slip of paper for a week's hard work. The worker must ask in writing to be paid by check before his little brown envelope can be discontinued. Apart from a small group of young workers who consider checks a new status symbol, few workers have signed up. Few wage earners in Britain have ever had checking accounts, and many do not fully understand just how they work; be sides, the average worker has a prejudice...
...husband and wife, Pierre and Maria, are driving through Spain to Madrid, accompanied by a young girl, Claire, who is not yet Pierre's mistress but who plainly will be as soon as they can slip off to a hotel room. A violent thunderstorm forces them to stop for the night in a small town 150 miles short of Madrid. There they learn that a double murder has been committed; a young husband has found his wife in bed with another man and in accordance with the local code of honor has shot them both...
...subtle ways to bring up U.S. meddling in Canadian affairs. In Winnipeg, Man., he appeared beneath a banner urging "Vote Canadian, Vote Conservative," a slogan thought up by a local Esso dealer and described by a Tory strategist "as the only way of being anti-American without letting your slip show...
...sideline at the Chicago Daily News Relays, trim, balding Track Coach Mihaly Igloi stood with a slip of paper clenched tightly in his fist. Scrawled on the paper was a series of digits: 1:02, 2:04, 3:09, 4:14, 5:19, 6:24, 7:29, 8:31. These were the times at which jaunty Jim Beatty, 28, the best U.S. distance runner and holder of the world indoor record for the mile, was to complete each segment of a precisely planned assault on the indoor two-mile record (8 min. 34.4 sec.) held by New Zealand...