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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...father was a restless frontiersman, always dreaming of wealth and never finding it. The boy loathed school in Hannibal, Mo. As he later let Huck Finn put it: "At first I hated the school, but by and by I got so I could stand it. Whenever I got uncommon tired, I played hookey, and the hiding I got next day done me good and cheered me up." Clemens himself fled school by the time...
Tragic coincidences are not uncommon in Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's Dominican Republic. Last week Trujillo's mouthpiece, El Cáribe, reported another: the curious case of three wellborn sisters noted for their opposition to the Dictator. They were found dead near the wreckage of a Jeep at the bottom of a 150-ft. cliff on the north coast of the tight little island. Said El Cáribe: "The accident in which Driver Rufino Cruz and the sisters Patria Mirabal de Gonzáles, Minerva Mirabal de Tavárez and Maria Teresa Mirabal de Guzman...
...Happened in Broad Daylight. Swiss Author Friedrich Duerrenmatt's story about a professional policeman's obsessive pursuit of a killer works up an uncommon amount of suspense, thanks to excellent performances by Gert Frobe and Heinz Rühmann...
...lost four of its five seats in the last legislature and suffered the additional humiliation of seeing the voters reject Mme. Kamejiro Senaga, wife of the party's spellbinding boss. (The other six legislature seats went to the mildly leftist Socialist Masses Party and a conservative independent.) With uncommon political maturity, most Okinawans had clearly accepted Liberal Democrat Ota's common-sense argument that in a time of cold war the U.S. could not realistically be expected to return to Japan the keystone of the American military position in the western Pacific...
...Happened in Broad Daylight. An expertly performed story by Swiss Author Friedrich Duerrenmatt about a cool cop's obsessive pursuit of a killer stirs up an uncommon amount of suspense...