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PDittie

(8,322 posts) Thu Aug 1, 2013, 05:54 PM Aug 2013

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Two anniversaries today

47 years ago, the UT tower shootings, by Charles Whitman:

http://blog.chron.com/thetexican/2013/08/47-years-later-whitmans-tower-shooting-still-a-haunting-memory-for-texans/?cmpid=hpfc#14558-15

Photos and video of NBC's Chet Huntley reporting the incident on the nightly newscast.

Also 40 years ago, the world lost the famed Chicken Ranch in La Grange:

http://blog.chron.com/thetexican/2013/08/40-years-of-the-chicken-ranch/?cmpid=hpfc#14561-1

This link also has photos and bonus 1982 ZZTop video.

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Marvin Zindler was a pompous ass Link Speed Aug 2013 #1

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1. Marvin Zindler was a pompous ass

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Thu Aug 1, 2013, 07:42 PM

Aug 2013

His whorehouse thing was not driven by principle, but self-promotion.

I remember some great parties on the lawn at Miss Edna's.

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