Word: blotter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bent on making it big, 73-year-old Floyd Dewey Gottwald of Richmond, Va., has been running up a remarkable record of swift starts and fast fades. In the early 1940s he turned a little paper company into the world's largest producer of blotting paper; then the blotter market rapidly dried up as the ballpoint pen caught on. Next, Gottwald converted his company into a maker of thick, waterproof paper bags for packaging fertilizer and chemicals, only to see that market crumble when plastic-lined bags came out. In 1962, with his two sons, Gottwald bought Ethyl Corp...
Puffy. To trial goers who expected a flamboyant superspy, Douglas proved to be something of a disappointment. Dressed in a gray business suit, he looked pallid and puffy. He spoke his testimony in a low, dispassionate monotone, using the stilted phraseology of a police blotter. Douglas' flat presentation, though, belied his importance to the case...
...police paddy wagon and a pickup truck pulled up and the cops leaped out. There were yells-"Let's get the freaks!"-and the police proceeded to beat the young people mercilessly. But the confrontation's results were recorded on a score card instead of a police blotter or hospital admission form. They were playing softball...
...question can be taken or left for what it is as long as Friedman sticks to the mimicry of detective-story dialogue, journalism cliches, police-blotter prose, and the series of burlesque lech-skits that give The Dick its basic shape. But when, as he does at the end, Friedman tries to graft existential pur pose onto his low-comedy hero, the ques tion becomes an embarrassment. Any second banana could have told him it wouldn't shtik...
Watchdogs and Guards. After a year in office, how does the new Administration's police blotter look? While Nixon and Mitchell have made some notable efforts against organized crime and drug traffic, they have discovered that crime in the streets is no respecter of party. Violent crimes are more numerous than ever. Nationwide, they jumped 12% during Nixon's first nine months in office-faster than the 85% rise in eight years under the Democrats. Forcible rape was up 17%, robbery 15%, murder and aggravated assault...