Word: carly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blast of orange flame engulfed Letelier's light blue Chevelle, blowing away the sheet-metal on the door on the driver's side, smashing the windows and floor and jamming the roof up as if a tent pole had been rammed into it. Parts of the shattered car rained down as far as 250 feet away...
Even with all the innovations, Kahn acknowledged that "theft is still a significant problem at Harvard." Recently, there has been a rash of petty thefts at the Med School, and an increase in bikes stolen from Holyoke Center and car vandalism at Peabody Terrace...
Strange story, Bolles thought, but in this business you leave no stone unturned. He was driving his new 1976 white Datsun, the first new car he had ever owned. One of the reasons investigative reporting had gotten old with him was the threats he had received--remember in the Jimmy Breslin book, The Gang That Couldn' Shoot Straight, how the old Mafia don sent his wife out every morning to start the Cadillac, just in case? It was no laughing matter to Bolles, and he had always taped the car hood to make sure nobody had tampered with...
...tipster wasn't at the Clarendon House, but he did receive a phone call. Bolles told the caller to go to the state capitol and went back to get in his car. He backed up a few feet, then turned his wheels. An explosion blew out the windshield, blew a two-foot hole under the driver's seat. Doctors amputated one leg, an arm, another leg, to save his life. He developed pneumonia. Finally, on June 13, he died. Curiosity killed Don Bolles...
...apartment after the bombing and found equipment for and books on how to make bombs. A business partner, Robert Lettiere, another minor figure in the Phoenix underworld, said under oath later that while he and Adamson were riding around, Adamson mentioned he was going to blow up a car. He was going to blow up the car, Adamson said, "because some people don't like this guy." On June 5, Adamson was ordered to stand trial for murder. The trial is set to begin today...