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...getting his information about Hoffa fourth-hand-by talking to a courier who was talking to gangsters who were talking to a man who had knowledge of the whereabouts of Hoffa's burial. "It's pure baloney," said one federal investigator. "That stuff about the Mafia is bunk. Look, if the Mob wanted Hoffa's body found, they would have it found...
...going to kill me," she said. After three to five minutes, Alligood's grip on the ice pick loosened. "I reached for the ice pick, he reached for the ice pick, I got to it first. I hit him with it while he was sitting on the bunk. He came at me ... Each time he came, I struck at him. He grabbed me by the wrists, then he was behind me. I put my feet against the bunk to place my weight against him. I hit him over my right shoulder. He fell middleway on the bunk forward...
...Washington, N.C., coming up as a black woman, it's different saying what you did and having your word go up against a white person's." Griffin took her over the painful details again and again. "Did you go down on your knees in front of the bunk?" he asked. When she did not respond, he shouted the question three more times, until she said softly, "He forced me down...
...matter. Elton and Bernie recognized at once that each could do what the other could not. They bought a bunk bed and rented digs together in Islington, a grimy section of North London, where they perfected remarkably friction-free methods of collaborating. "It's so simple," says Taupin. "Bernie writes lyrics. Bernie gives lyrics to Elton. Elton writes a song. And plays it back to Bernie. It sounds cold, but it's not." It takes Bernie only an hour to write the words and Elton about half that time to set them to music. Though they may throw...
Some of the enlisted men are still barracked in cramped, 20-year-old, dormitory-style metal quonset huts. But there are growing numbers of new three-story "super hooches," which bunk only three men to a room. BOQS, or Bachelor Officer Quarters, bear whimsical names like "Teahouse of the Anxious Moose"-moose being a corruption of the Japanese musume or girl. A recreation center has been developed to accompany the "spartan training" facility on Cheju Island, off the southern coast of South Korea; it offers sailing, scuba diving and duck and pheasant shooting. The division has even sponsored occasional...