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Woodward stated that James C. McCord, convicted Watergate burglar, also admitted to him that Post articles on the break-in influenced his choice to divulge information on the Watergate affair...

Author: By Anne D. Neal, | Title: Post Reporter Woodward Hails Press, Says Watergate Reveals U.S. Naivete | 3/26/1974 | See Source »

...made of stone, iron, wood, glass. "The god he wanted to reach wasn't interested in words. Only in achieved states. Palpable transformations. He would be known only by those who had gone through them." Fogel's crowning obsession is the diamond. Acquiring some through a friendly burglar, he becomes a fanatical student of facets and crystallography, of refraction angles and cleavage planes. He is possessed by the belief that diamonds are an incarnation of God's cold, durable and eternal being. What Fogel cannot possess is Laurence's sister Susie. And what he cannot possess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Deep Cleavage | 3/25/1974 | See Source »

...morning on the CBS radio network. While his colleagues concentrate on assembling verbal front pages, Osgood searches out items that newspapers are likely to bury. He interviews the teenage girl who got the idea of sending spiders into space via Skylab. He tells of the confession of a cat burglar in Miami who is only seven years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Osgood Muse | 12/31/1973 | See Source »

...morning in the midst of his successful 1966 bid for a seat in the U.S. Senate, Illinois' Charles H. Percy was awakened by his wife's screams. He set off the piercing burglar alarm atop their 17-room mansion in Kenilworth, a suburb of Chicago. When he entered the bedroom of his 21-year-old twin daughter Valerie, the girl lay agonizingly near death-her face, chest and stomach mutilated by stab wounds. In the seven years since the slaying, Illinois state police have interviewed more than 14,000 people, spent over $300,000, and painstakingly pursued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Percy Lead No. 273 | 12/10/1973 | See Source »

Both men joined the gang around 1965. Hohimer was a career burglar with 22 arrests on his record, twelve of them for burglary and robbery. He also showed a marked penchant for violence. His favorite weapon on heists was a propane blowtorch, which he used not simply as an entry tool but also to coerce reluctant robbery victims by threatening to burn off their hair. Hohimer's former wife told police that he once cut off her hair while in a jealous rage and on another occasion emptied a revolver in a circular pattern around their infant daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Percy Lead No. 273 | 12/10/1973 | See Source »

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