Word: clydes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unfortunately, Board Member Clyde Jordan, 43, publisher of an East St. Louis weekly, did not take Merritts' warning seriously enough: he became an outspoken critic of board policies. But Merritts apparently had been in deadly earnest. In September a federal grand jury charged that he had conspired to kill Jordan, using a St. Louis advertising salesman as middleman. The purported plot fell through when Merritts and the salesman tried to hire an undercover FBI agent as the triggerman. "They let a blond, blue-eyed agent pass himself off as a member of the Sicilian Mafia," said U.S. Attorney Henry...
...time to prevent their extinction, it is a vain hope that smaller units of economic and social organization will be able to keep their heads above water any better than large ones in the approaching economic deluge. Unless the Scots are willing to become a sheikdom on the Clyde, a few decades of oil-boom cannot be a substitute for industrial development. Their growing isolationism is reflected in the Labour party's desire to get out of the Common Market. Party leaders feel so strongly about this that they have promised to hold the first binding referendum in British history...
Bonnie and Clyde (1967). Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty star as the famous outlaws. A solid movie, a bit long on violence. Estelle Parsons and Gene Hackman are excellent in supporting roles. Ch. 7, 9 p.m. Color, 2hrs...
...Ford's detour from Duke, his classmates at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Va., apparently have no doubts about his future. He and Coed Janice Hodges were voted "most likely to succeed" by then" fellow seniors, and posed for the appropriate yearbook picture, costumed as Bonnie and Clyde...
Died. William Daniel ("Deacon") Jones, 58, who drove getaway cars for Bank Robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow as a teen-ager in the early 1930s and served six years in prison as their accomplice in the murder of a Texas deputy sheriff, but later claimed that the pair had threatened to kill him if he tried to leave them; of a shotgun blast in a predawn quarrel with an acquaintance; in Houston...