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...criminals go, George Skalla was even edgier than most. He and a friend, Cal Bailey, 44, had come up with what seemed a surefire scheme. For between $2,000,000 and $8,000,000 in ransom, they planned to kidnap Leonard Firestone, 58, one of five sons of the late rubber magnate Harvey Firestone, from his $250,000 home in Beverly Hills. The plot was dangerous enough, but Skalla's real worry was Bailey, an ex-con who had turned respectable and had acquired a $75,000 house and four children. Bailey took over the show, threatened to kill...
...tough guy," said Skalla of his pal, "and I'm scared to death of him. He told me that if I wouldn't go along with him, he'd take me out in the desert and bury me." The police told him to go along with Bailey. They then staked out the Firestone house, even went so far as to rent for Skalla a getaway car that he had been assigned to steal...
TRIALS OF O'BRIEN (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "Dead End on Flugel Street." Attorney O'Brien defends Burlesque Comedian Boozey Bailey (Milton Berle), accused of murdering his wife...
...Demo cratic membership fell from 43% to a mere 20%. Massachusetts-born Hoff, who was on a State Department tour of Europe and Asia for all but the last week of the campaign, called it a "horrendous defeat." Penny-wise Vermonters had plainly responded to G.O.P. National Committeewoman Consuelo Bailey's charge: "This Governor's been spending the way Johnson does in Washington. Some of the bonding people out of state have been wondering whether Vermont has suddenly gone crazy." So did Hoff. He immediately cut his ambitious legislative program by half and started preparing...
Look for Problems. "Opportunities are usually found where the problems are found," says Los Angeles' Fred Bailey, 39, who founded a small microwave company on a $500 stake, foresaw a shortage of ordnance parts for brush-fire war, and started to make them, earning $2,000,000. His word to entrepreneurs: "Go into anything that will deal heavily in helping solve the problems of the population explosion-to help provide food and fresh water to provide transportation and communications systems, to clean the air." Charles Gelman, 33, a Michigan chemist who was brought up in an orphanage, figured that...