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...stopped them cold in their attempt to halt integration at Hall and Central high schools, Little Rock's dwindling band of diehard segregationists has seethed with frustration. Last week, in a senseless outburst of spite, a handful of maniacs shattered the calm of Labor Day night with a spree of bomb throwing-and again ran smack into hard-hitting Gene Smith, backed by rock-hard Little Rock public opinion...
...adept as Grassi was at getting money, he was even better at losing it. Last month, in one three-day spree in Monte Carlo, he dropped $490,000. A few days later, at Le Touquet, he lost heavily again, this time ironically playing beside an American businessman on vacation-Ralph Thomas Reed, president of American Express Co. Reed was not the only one who wondered at the recklessness of the mysteriously affluent Italian. A Parisian gossip columnist wrote an item about "a young Italian, Mr. Grassi, who never bets less than one million francs at a time at roulette...
...shops, Nessim said he had stumbled onto a marvelous bronze figure of a six-armed, three-faced god crowned with a headdress of flames, excitedly asked if he might buy it. Told that he might, Nessim realized he was getting an official green light, started off on a buying spree...
...your June 15 article, "Spain: Nation in Trouble," you state: "Wisely spent, the $2 billion pumped into Spain [by the U.S.] during the past eight years might have gone far toward putting the country on its feet. But bureaucrats went on an ill-conceived spending spree...
Died. Charles Starkweather, 20, mass murderer who in 1958 shot, stabbed and clubbed to death ten people, including friends, foes and strangers, in a wild, inexplicable, three-day spree with his 14-year-old girl friend; by electrocution; in Lincoln...