Word: bloods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...better get over here right away," the caller told Los Angeles police. "There's a man lying on the front lawn and blood all over the place. It looks like a bad one." It was even worse than the caller thought. When police reached the hilltop home rented by Film Director Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water, Rosemary's Baby) in the fashionable suburb of Bel Air, they found not one body but five. It was a scene as grisly as anything depicted in Polanski's film explorations of the dark and melancholy corners of the human...
Telephone and electric lines leading to the red, barnlike house had been severed. The word "pig" was scrawled on the front door in blood. Inside, police discovered the body of Polanski's pregnant wife, Actress Sharon Tate, 26. She was clad in a bikini nightgown. A nylon cord, looped around her neck and passed over a beam, linked her body to that of Jay Sebring, 35, who had been her beau before her marriage. A hood covered Sebring's head, but the two appeared to have been stabbed or shot, not hanged. "It seemed kind of ritualistic," said...
...slaughter confined to the house. "There was ample blood all around," said a policeman. On the lawn lay the bodies of Voyteck Frykowski, 37, a friend and associate of Polanski's, and Abigail Folger, 26, heiress to her family's coffee fortune and a partner of Sebring's in his chain of men's hair-styling shops. In a white Ambassador sedan parked in the driveway was the body of an unidentified young man. All had been slain...
...well. There seemed to be no middle ground for those pushing for rent control. A poster pictured the hands of nine city councillors: the hands of the four councillors who voted for the housing convention's rent control ordinance are clean; those of the five opposed are splattered with blood. As housing convention vice-chairman Bill Joyce saw it, the four backed "the little people of Cambridge," while the five voted for "rent gougers, speculators, banks and Harvard and M.I.T...
After the decision on rent control became clear last Monday, several councillors asked the housing convention members to "sit down together with the council" to map out a concrete program on housing. The request may go unanswered, for much, perhaps too much blood has been shed over rent control in recent days...