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...kind of roller coaster of stage-managed drama. After an anonymous woman phoned a Rome newspaper that Moro had been released on a coastal road south of the city, police launched a ground and air search that lasted four hours. They found nothing. Next day, after another caller said Moro's body had been stuffed into the trunk of a car near his residence in Rome's Trionfale district, police pounced on that area. Again they came up emptyhanded...
...about the kidnaping of ex-Premier Aldo Moro; an education program to help children with their homework; a spaghetti western; a porno feature called The Masseuses; and a phone-in quiz starring a housewife-masked to protect her identity-who peeled off an item of clothing every time a caller got the answer right. For the truly hard-to-please, there were also sports and political programs, and films brought in by relay stations from France, Monaco, Malta and Yugoslavia...
...episode does have all the marks of a grade-Z whodunit, complete with an anonymous woman caller, a mysterious motel room in Scranton, Pa., purloined pages and sotto voce allegations of bad faith and perhaps even criminality. What is known is that Post Reporter Nancy Collins penetrated perhaps the most elaborate security precautions ever thrown around the birth of a book, and that her coup touched off a divisive row in the publishing community that some newsmen quickly dubbed "Scrantongate...
Arthur was going to make it - he would be reappointed next day by Jimmy Carter, whispered the first caller. Ring, ring. Another voice. Sorry, it was all off. The President was dropping Burns as chairman. The negative word from the White House would soon be public. Jangle, jangle. New rumor running through the city. In just a few minutes Carter would speak in the Mayflower Hotel to the Business Council, a group of high-powered corporate chiefs, and drop his bombshell: Burns would have another four-year term as Fed chairman. Carter indeed met with the council, but he never...
...wife Jeanne-Cora, were murdered in their home near Johannesburg. The victims were shot and stabbed, and their killers sprayed mysterious letters in red paint on the kitchen walls. Police were not sure whether the killings were a South African variant of the Charles Manson case, as one anonymous caller hinted, or whether they had political connotations...