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...case of "Aunt Allie" Sullivan Earp, wife of Virgil, the little woman even had a sewing machine; she took it with her wherever the trigger-happy Earp brothers moved and, sneer as they might, she refused to give it up, even threatening to leave her husband rather than the machine. The money Aunt Allie earned by taking in sewing supported the whole Earp tribe much of the time, and not their gambling "br their holdups...
...airport, they beat up any stray Africans they encountered, disarmed and arrested Congolese troops. When Congo Foreign Minister Justin Bomboko pro posed a truce, with joint patrols from both sides to police Leopoldville, the paratroops indignantly refused to sit be side "those black apes" in military jeeps. They were trigger-happy and arrogant. TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs was shot at by a paratrooper, who then apologized because "in the dark I thought you were an African...
Prices, too, are still going up. They edged up another .01% in May, to reach a new high of 126.3 (1947-49=100). These higher prices in turn will trigger an automatic pay increase of 1? to 2? per hr. for 200,000 workers, mostly in the aircraft and meat-packing industries...
...raunchy cliché of sex and six-shot violence, hoping to demonstrate that the Western hero can hold his own with the Homeric. Arch Eastmere, the tall, silent type home from a couple of seasons of dark adventure in the South, is a mean hand with a hair-trigger .45. He makes a natural enough Achilles. Percy Randal, the grey old rancher, proud of his sons and his stock-rich kingdom, is clearly Priam. Golden-haired Ellen Lacy, wife of one of Randal's younger rivals, may be no match for Helen, but in the woman-starved region around...
Robinson's story in the Free Press touched off an official reinvestigation of the Pecho case, and a reconstruction of Mrs. Pecho's death proved that she could easily have pulled the trigger herself. In the light of this and other compelling evidence of Pecho's innocence, Michigan Governor G. Mennen Williams granted...