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...Klux Klan, the Palestine Liberation Organization, the American Nazi party and a legion of crank callers. His Denver radio station, KOA, even kept a list of people who had threatened his life. Thus when combative Radio Talk-Show Host Alan Berg, 50, was gunned down in his driveway late one night last week, many wondered at first which of his listeners was the killer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Denver: Gunning Down a Talk-Show Host | 7/2/1984 | See Source »

...will ride a red-and-white motor scooter. Sometimes he will take his electric car for a spin. It is a close copy of a vehicle from Mr. Toad's Wild Ride at Disneyland. Outside the iron gates, the fans on the street can see him whizzing along the driveway, playing by himself, and at those times, he is too far away for anyone to see his face at all. ?By Jay Cocks. Reported by Denise Worrell/Los Angeles, with other bureaus

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why He's a Thriller | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

...freeway to Encino we talk about cars and boats and nothing. We take the Havenhurst exit, and Jackson says, "This is our neighborhood." We cross Ventura and almost immediately turn into a driveway with an iron gate that swings slowly open. A TV camera stares into the car. "Everybody knows who's comin' now," Jackson says. The gate shuts and we pass a guard station. A uniformed man nods his head to Jackson. We start down a driveway Lined with well-trimmed shrubs. At the end, on the right, stands a four-car Tudor-style garage. Above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: He Hasn't Gone Crazy over Success | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

While the car idled in the street, the chauffeur operated a remote-control device, opening the metal gates that sealed off the driveway. Suddenly, three men sprang from a blue Fiat 128 parked across the street, spraying the Alfa Romeo sedan with bullets. The driver yelled at his passenger to get down; the armored car's heavy metal plating and triple-thick bulletproof glass held true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: Alive and Well | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

...police. Los Angeles authorities discovered a few years ago that an empty police car parked alongside a speedway would serve just as well as a manned cruiser to slow down traffic. In fact, at least one Beverly Hills denizen has taken to keeping a fake patrol car in the driveway to deter thieves. Mere burglar alarms are obsolete today; the up-to-date suburban paranoiac installs timers in his house to turn lights off and on while he is away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Marshal Potemkin, Meet Your Fans | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

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