Word: carly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bill Minor no longer checks under the hood of his car before turning the ignition key, although he sometimes thinks he should. Not too long ago, friends advised him that there was a contract out on his life. Last January a cross was burned in front of the one-story brick office he rents in the warehouse district of Jackson, Miss. The same night, hoodlums hurled a brick through the window with the warning, "You are being watched by the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan...
...story on the resurgence of the K.K.K. apparently provoked the brick throwing and crossburning that have left the office with half its front window boarded. Mississippi Governor Cliff Finch called Minor a "political assassin" over another story, on an automobile accident; the highway patrol car in which Finch was riding bumped a black youth on a motorcycle, and the police report was buried until Minor received one of the dozen or so tips he gets each day. The Finch administration has been the target of Minor's reports of slush funds and campaign contributions from out-of-state engineers...
...especially his own daughter. He'd taught her to play. O.K., so he only hit on weekends, and she played every day. If he just stretched a little more on his forehand shots, he could put the kid away. He knew it. He stretched ... She got the car and drove him to the hospital...
...toward a down payment on a house. Both work for Xerox near Los Angeles, and they jointly earn $48,000. They take frequent "little jaunts" to San Diego, San Francisco and Las Vegas and a longer holiday in the East once a year. Recently, they bought a new second car; they rent an expensive two-bedroom duplex complete with spiral staircase and a swimming pool for residents of the complex. "Fay is the fiscal conservative," says Sam. "She gets uptight if the bills on our credit cards total more than $1,200. We live a comfortable life -our parents wanted...
Wilmot's woes started in 1973, when a small Texas outfit that installs navigation and communications systems in Gulfstreams accused Page of trying to take over its lucrative business by, among other tactics, bribing one of its executives with $30,000 and the use of a Jaguar sports car. Last October Page was ordered by a U.S. court to pay the Texas firm $9 million in damages for trying to monopolize the Gulfstream outfitting business. Page is appealing that decision, but testimony at the trial about other Page activities has led to more trouble for Wilmot...