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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When Patty screamed, she was struck in the face with what she thought was a rifle butt, and she was bound, gagged and blindfolded. For a while, she lost consciousness. When she came to, she was being dragged down the stairs and thrust into the trunk of the getaway car...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: Patty's Terrifying Story | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

...gently by Bailey, Patty explained away her bizarre conduct by insisting that she had been coerced by the S.L.A. from the moment she was kidnaped. At one point, she said, "I was put in a garbage can that was tied up and put in the trunk of the car." She related how she had been confined for "a month, month and a half in a stifling closet. During part of this time she was bound and gagged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: Patty's Terrifying Story | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

...Tragedy. The most obvious thing about the show is its broad exaggeration of soap-opera calamity. Mary is held hostage by a crazed gunman, then propositioned by the rescuing police officer. Her friend, Loretta, who dreams of a career as a country singing star, is battling paralysis after her car was struck by another car full of nuns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

...After picking you up for soliciting, the cops offer to negotiate in the back seat of the squad car. If you score enough point, the wonderful boys in blue could let you off with a warning...then again their promises are pretty worthless and you can find yourself with the 'ol' jailhouse blues anyway," St. James said...

Author: By Marilyn L. Booth, | Title: New Tricks in the Labor Zone | 2/18/1976 | See Source »

There were no endurance races sneaking rides on car bumpers, no style points allotted to the technique of your driveway shoveling, and heaven forbid, no contests of throwing snowballs at moving Mack trucks...

Author: By Richard J. Doherty, | Title: Rags to Riches | 2/18/1976 | See Source »

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