Word: dec
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...points to a single killer in three other child murders. Mark Stebbins, 12, a quiet boy who lived with his divorced mother in Ferndale, was found in a parking lot on Feb. 19,1976, some 17 days after he had disappeared. The body of Jill Robinson, 12, was discovered Dec. 16 beside a freeway, four days after she was reported missing from her home in Royal Oak. Kristine Mihelich, a brown-haired, blue-eyed ten-year-old from nearby Berkley, vanished on Jan. 2. Her body turned up 18 days later in a roadside snowbank. These victims may all have...
...When the American Bible Society issued its homespun Good News Bible translation (TIME, Dec. 6), some critics responded in sorrow. Championing the King James Version, the Philadelphia Inquirer stated that "Good News is bad news, in terms of poetry, of grace, of charm and thus of beauty." Many readers apparently disagree. In three months the new version has sold 1.5 million copies...
...Dec. 7, 1976. Dolphin Lair, 21, a janitor whose father died of lung cancer, held a man hostage atop a Los Angeles skyscraper for 2½ hours to warn against the dangers of tobacco. Result: he gave up without a struggle...
Conducting his people program at a private level, Carter last week breakfasted with John Shanklin, 71, an employee of Washington's Sheraton Carlton Hotel. On Dec. 12, 1974, Shanklin became the first person to be told by Carter that he was running for the presidency. When Shanklin said he would vote for the Georgian, Carter promised to ask him around for breakfast when he got to the White House. Accompanied by Daughter Amy, Carter also listened appreciatively to the National Children's Choir during the dedication of Children's Hospital in Washington...
...time the Christmas holidays rolled around, the team had become the Detroit Scrooges. On Christmas Eve, Brown fined Porter for stalking to his spot at the far end of the bench when he was removed from a game. On Dec. 30, Money was confined to the locker room during the second half of a game against Denver and fined after a heated argument with Brown disrupted a half-time strategy session. Porter, who has played well when in the lineup, went into 1977 boiling. Said he: "I've been playing the game for five years...