Word: cracks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Appeals Court in San Francisco ordered Judge William G. East in Portland to hear alleged Bank Robber Edward J. Dillon's claim that he had been sentenced to 18 years without benefit of a lawyer. Enthusiastically complying, last spring Judge East ordered crack Portland Lawyer Manley D. Strayer to represent Dillon, and the lawyer, toiling in Dillon's behalf, spent 108 hours of his usually high-priced time during a rehearing at which Dillon was resentenced. Federal rules being what they are, Strayer did not expect a penny...
Married. Stirling Moss, 34, peerless driver of racing cars until his near-fatal crack-up in 1962; and Elaine Barbarino, 24, pretty brunette daughter of a New York contractor, Moss's constant companion and helpmate since the accident; both for the second time; in Hertfordshire, England...
...private Cessna. "We were warming up at the end of the runway," he recalls. "Suddenly, there was a rumbling noise over the sound of the engine, and the plane began jumping around as if it were fighting turbulence in the sky. I watched the terminal building crack open at the sides and sag to earth." Dozens of oil tanks on the city's outskirts burst into flame, sending up columns of choking black smoke 20,000 ft. high. The tanks burned for 96 hours, despite efforts by U.S. planes to smother the flames with foam bombs. A tidal wave...
...Tiro Fijo's men fought half a dozen bitter skirmishes. But in the deadly game of hide-and-seek, the guerrilla-wise soldiers came out on top, pressed steadily on toward Tiro Fijo's hacienda headquarters. Early one morning last week, a fleet of helicopters airlifted 170 crack troops into position surrounding the hacienda. The desperate Communists opened fire from underbrush and foxholes. In the three-hour fight, they wounded only one soldier; finally Tiro Fijo put the hacienda to torch and retreated into the mountains. That night his men ambushed an army patrol, killing two soldiers; four...
Privacy & Chats. Builder Cortese (rhymes with daisy) specializes in retirement housing. When he was cranking up for his third retirement community-at Walnut Creek in the San Francisco Bay area-he decided to give an architect a crack at it. The result has made $250 million Walnut Creek, now abuilding, one of the most talked-about developments...