Word: bungalow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chilly South Texas afternoon, 20 federal and state lawmen sporting flak jackets and semiautomatic rifles descended on a secluded bungalow near the Rio Grande in Starr County. They arrested three men who were darting out the back. Inside, the cops found giant trash bags of marijuana. Suddenly the ceiling gave way from the weight of other people hiding in the bungalow. All told, 14 Mexicans were charged with drug possession, and 2,000 lbs. of dope were confiscated...
...last week, more than four years after Belushi's body was found in a bungalow off Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard, a Los Angeles judge handed a three- year prison sentence to Cathy Evelyn Smith, 39, who supplied the actor with heroin during his final week. Smith had pleaded no contest to involuntary manslaughter, as well as to administering and furnishing controlled substances. While conceding that Belushi was partly responsible for his own death because of his "drug-infested life," Judge David Horowitz ruled that Smith must be punished for "being the source of that poison...
...when William Desmond Taylor's houseman came to work and discovered the film director's body lying faceup on the floor. When the police arrived an hour later, they found Taylor's Los Angeles bungalow swarming with reporters and souvenir hunters. The press made much of reports that Mabel Normand, the heroine of Mack Sennett's Keystone Kops comedies, was seen rummaging through desk drawers in search of her old love letters. A Paramount executive was sitting in front of the fireplace burning papers. A man claiming to be a doctor examined the corpse and announced that Taylor had died...
Vidor interviewed all the survivors and gained access to secret police files. One of his most surprising discoveries concerned the "evidence" found in Taylor's bungalow: it had been planted there by Paramount. The studio wanted Taylor portrayed as a Casanova to disguise his homosexual private life. Even more surprising was the fact that the police had barely investigated several obvious leads. Working alone, Vidor traced the crime to its source. But he never made the movie, and never made any use of his more than 650 pages of notes and records...
Overweight and diabetic, Tiedge began drinking too much. His three teenage daughters frequently found themselves fatherless in the family's one-story white stucco bungalow in Cologne. Tiedge's superiors knew about his problems, but they feared that switching him to another job might push him over the edge. But by that point, he may already have gone over. Among Tiedge's contacts may have been the three suspected East German agents who recently vanished. Sonja Luneburg, 61, longtime personal secretary to Economics Minister Martin Bangemann, and Ursula Richter, 52, a bookkeeper for a lobbying group, each disappeared while...