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...search for more bodies continued, frightened parents from round the country telephoned the Houston police switchboard, supplying descriptions of lost or runaway children. Police began the difficult task of identifying the victims, drawing on Brooks' and Henley's recollections, analyzing the remains, and sifting through thick files on missing youngsters. More than 5,000 minors are annually reported missing in the Houston area. Because of the decomposition of the bodies, only two positive identifications had been made by week's end, and police were uncertain whether they would ever be able to name all the victims...
...feeling of Gemütlichkeit began to evaporate when West German youths engaged their East German counterparts in political discussions. Among the FDJ "youth" were more than a few East Germans in their 30s and 40s with the thick necks and receding hairlines of state security men. As West German Socialist youth Leader Wolfgang Roth began to speak on inter-European cooperation, his speech was drowned out by FDJ troublemakers. But at week's end the exuberance of youth seemed to overcome ideology, and Communists and Socialists mingled congenially-at least for the moment...
...appeal is based on the desire to recapture a time gone by, the germinal days of rock and roll when it was the song and not the singer that made the hit. Representing the fifties, they lay the camp trimmings on thick: the grease, the T-shirts, the rumbles, the lingo. Last year when Sha-na-na came to Boston, most of the crowd was dressed for occasion, resplendent in white sox, sweat shirts, saddle shoes, and Brylcreem. This year the leftovers of that crowd walked like ghosts among a younger crowd in halter tops, platform shoes, and wide bell...
...Sydney Gittler. "The workmanship is so perfect that I'll have difficulty having it done in the U.S." Still smarting from their unhappy attempts to meld high fashion with ready-to-wear, designers seemed completely unbothered by the prospect of greater exclusivity. "We have models here with thick necks or broad hips or short legs," says Esparza. "I hide these faults with my clothes. That is couture, and that is why ready-to-wear can never take its place." As for the noncouture masses, let them wear denim...
Sadly, Walker Lindsay did not die like a hero, like the star he had once been. When the end came, he was running, which was what he had always done. But his thighs had grown thick in the two years since his last season. They no longer pumped like powerful black pistons as they had back in 1970, when Walker was the best fullback in Delaware County. That early Sunday morning, when the stakes seemed greater than ever before, his legs betrayed him, getting in each other's way as they strained against the seams of pants grown tight...