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Ten-year-old college graduate Michael Kearney (the youngest graduate ever, according to the Guinness book), upon acquiring a job as “special correspondent” for the ABC TV afternoon show Mike & Maty: “This is my big break.”
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Five southern California graffiti vandals, who call themselves “artists,” were arrested in San Francisco over the July 4 weekend. Said one: “We came here to contribute something to this town, and we end up in jail.” Said a police spokesman, “They drove [more than 300 miles] to spray paint the city. That’s a long drive just to be a jerk.”
A man who robbed a 25-year-old woman at knifepoint of cash and jewelry in Sandy Springs, Georgia, in May, told her: “My life sucks. I’ll return this stuff back to you.”
In the June Iowa Democratic primary Anne Pedersen whipped challenger Marilyn Monroe by 57 percent to 43 percent. In a Tennessee election for road superintendent of Grundy County incumbent Norman (June Bug) Meeks whipped former superintendent Gene (Eyeballs) Rogers.
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