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...murder mystery: a young girl, accompanied her fiance and father, comes to a strange country house, invited by a woman she doesn't know all that well. The house is bulging with a variety of guests, to who terms like "wacky" and "zany" cannot be too strongly applied. A burglar enters the premises, as does the long-lost daughter of one of the guests. Relationships among the characters are tangled--nobody is quite what he appears to be. Eventually the knots become untangled, in revelations amusing to the audience but painful for the characters--heartbreaking, in fact...

Author: By Troy Segal, | Title: King Arthur in the Union | 4/19/1979 | See Source »

...addition to the outside course instruction offerings, the police will be receiving some "in-house" training, Chafin says. He plans to personally train the crime prevention unit to improve their skills in burglar, murder, rape, larceny and assault investigation. In the future, Chafin believes there will be a rape prevention unit. "Paramount to the development of this is the hiring of women police officers and the creation of a 24-hour rape line," Chafin says...

Author: By Alexandra D. Korry, | Title: No Molotovs | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

According to police, Smith's knowledge of such behavior may have been more than academic. Last month he was caught allegedly breaking into a parked van and brandishing a gun to boot. When cops searched his car, they found a mask, guns and burglar's tools. The next day a longtime friend of Smith's, Harold Jones Jr., a librarian for a Philadelphia high school, was arrested leaving Smith's house with several pounds of marijuana. Subsequently, another county charged Smith with stealing $53,000 from a Sears, Roebuck store last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Moonlooting | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

...what physicists call the electromagnetic spectrum, they lie somewhere between conventional radio waves and infrared (heat) radiation in frequency and wave length. First widely used in radar during World War II, they are now generated by everything from telephone relay systems and television stations to garage door openers, burglar alarms, emergency highway call boxes, diathermy machines and, of course, the kitchen "radar" range...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Are Americans Being Zapped? | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

...Bernard Ryan, 34, an adept burglar thought to be part of the gang, was found shot to death in a car in suburban Stone Park. Two weeks later police discovered the mutilated body of Garcia in the trunk of a car at a motel near Chicago's O'Hare Airport. A fourth jewel thief associated with the gang, John McDonald, 43, was shot to death in a North Side alley in April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Something Fishy in Chicago | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

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