Word: boxes
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...offices of McNeil Consumer Products Co., the Johnson & Johnson subsidiary that makes Tylenol; it had been forwarded from the Johnson & Johnson headquarters in New Brunswick, N.J., because the word Tylenol had been written on the envelope. The letter demanded that the manufacturer pay $1 million into a postal box at Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Co. in Chicago, and according to Chicago newspapers it implied that there would be more poisonings if this were not done. Investigators identified the sender as a Chicago stockbroker, name undisclosed, who had been a customer of Continental Illinois and had suffered heavy losses...
...Tylenol case is not quite like the Son of Sam killings or the Mad Bomber or the Atlanta murders, and not only because these latest deaths are more random. There is something about the will involved, the you involved, plucking the particular little pill box that your hand has settled on, then standing politely in a row, ready to pay for your medicine. The trouble with poison is that you take it yourself, even when the murderer has spiked the gum on the envelope or when a Borgia has switched the wine. It is the victim who does the actual...
Police estimated the value of property stolen from October 8 to October 15 at $4084.01, including a drain cleaner, box of hot dogs and an answering machine...
Cornell threw the match into overtime with 17 minutes left in regulation. Fisher took a low free kick from the right side that resulted in general confusion in the Harvard penalty box. Halfback Ted Heinrich used the hysteria to slip in the tying score...
...three yards and the first down. The bad news, though no one was aware of it at the time, turned out to be that the helmet of Cornell safety Tim Dolan smashed into Allard's left collarbone, bruising it so badly that the early words trickling into the press box were that Allard had a broken shoulder...