Word: copse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite a massive manhunt by a special 55-man task force of the Los Angeles police department, aided by Los Angeles County and Glendale cops, the case of the "hillside strangler" has produced few usable clues and no suspects. Police are not sure whether they are looking for one killer...
Suzanne, tired of suffering and loneliness, cops out and fulfills the stereotypical mother's dream for her daughter in her marriage to an established doctor. Varda justifies the wedding by saying it was without bourgeois frills; for entertainment they played records and scrabble. Nevertheless, this marriage is disturbing, as are...
Last March, agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) arrested Barnes. A federal grand jury had indicted him and five of his top "lieutenants" for conspiring to distribute 44 Ibs. of heroin (estimated wholesale price: $1 million) once a month, starting in November 1976, from Barnes' Harlem garage...
Murder Ink: The Mystery Reader's Companion. "Perpetrated" by Dilys Winn (Workman Publishing; 522 pages; $14.95 hardcover, $7.95 paper). For devotees of mysteries, thrillers and spy stories, this is the unputdownable reference work and ultimate argument settler. How many of those "little gray cells" did Hercule Poirot have? (One...
At the very heart of the issue is the attitude of the thousands of people who concoct and enforce the Government rules. The best of the bureaucratic breed talk sincerely of transforming regulators from cops who are out to punish offenders to public servants who help citizens solve their problems...