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...more than half-crazed, called Daniel Morgan. Paroled from prison after six years of "hard labor"-not to mention sodomization, humiliation and deprivation-Morgan roamed the country stealing horses and robbing their riders. His only companion was an aboriginal boy named Billy, who taught him how to use a boomerang and live off the land like a bushman. Eventually Morgan killed a couple of policemen, and a fat ? 1,000 price was fixed on his head. By the time he ran up against the law for the last time, Morgan was working his way from highwayman to legend...
Whoever plotted it. the senseless killing seemed certain to boomerang. Arizona Attorney General Bruce Babbitt quickly took charge of the investigation, brushing aside the bumbling Maricopa County prosecutor, Moise Berger. Both houses of the state legislature swiftly approved legislation to break up the Arizona dog racing monopoly, controlled in part by Emprise. A special prosecution fund providing $100,000 to investigate Bolles' murder is assured of speedy approval by the legislature. The Arizona Republic vowed to intensify its crusade against "the slimy hand of the gangster and the pitiless atrocities of the terrorist...
Knock on Any Door, 4, 7:10, 10:15 p.m., and Ellery Queen, Master Detective, 5:50, 9 p.m., tonight; Laura, 4, 7:10, 10:30 p.m., and Boomerang, 5:35, 8:50 p.m., Friday and Saturday; Murder My Sweet, 4, 7:15, 10:30 p.m., and The Spiral Staircase, 5:45, 9 p.m., Sunday through Tuesday...
...found wealth or spend it on the television sets and tape recorders that he makes, doubts spread as to whether anyone had really won any thing worthwhile. Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka warned that the big pay raises could set off a vicious wage-price spiral that would boomerang against consumers and threaten Japan's competitiveness in world markets. The workers themselves, who had gone so far as to stage a two-day transportation strike to press their demands, concede gloomily that most of their gains have al ready been wiped out by Japan's virulent inflation. Living costs...
...ability for science, or for some other reason did not come up to a reasonable level, as judged by national standards. I doubt that inflating the grades in the course could be hidden from the medical schools for more than a year or two, and suspect the practice would boomerang. Your editorial states that a high grade in Chem 20 "insures" that a student will get into medical school; if this is so, it suggests that medical schools now have considerable respect for our standards and honesty...