Word: elmer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...burial sites by Elmer Wayne Henley, 17, and David Owen Brooks, 18, police last week recovered the bodies of four more teen-age boys from shallow graves. That brought to 27 the body count in Houston's homosexual-torture murders (TIME, Aug. 20), establishing a grisly new record* for a series of mass killings...
...week stunned residents of Pasadena had a different view of the 33-year-old bachelor electrician who had been their neighbor since June. After an all-night party in Corll's two-bedroom frame cottage, he was shot to death with his own gun by 17-year-old Elmer Wayne Henley...
SATURDAY: Elmer Gantry (1960) Thrice-Oscared fictional "Marjoe" about evangelism in the old Midwest. Burt Lancaster stars in Richard Brooks's film from the Sinclair Lewis novel. CH.4. 9 p.m. Color...
...Psychologist Neal Miller of Manhattan's Rockefeller University, who has had spectacular though temporary success in teaching a victim of serious hypertension to lower her blood pressure at will. (He points out, however, that similar efforts with other patients have failed.) At Topeka's Menninger Foundation, Psychologist Elmer Green is regularly successful in alleviating migraine headaches by teaching patients to increase the blood flow to their hands (as yet, he cannot explain why this works). Green has also tested Swami Rama, an Indian yogi who demonstrated his ability to stop his heart for 17 seconds. Like that...
Postal Service officials try to dismiss their private rivals as "messenger services." Postmaster General Elmer T. Klassen admitted recently in congressional testimony that the Government corporation has been "so hellbent" on cutting costs that "we perhaps lost track of services." He pleaded for "more time" to build a fast, reliable service. National Postal Founder Peter Olsen proposes a different solution: have the USPS concentrate on handling letters and publications, and turn over all third-class mail delivery to the private entrepreneurs. Such mail has always lost money for the Government, Olsen notes, but "we have been making a comfortable profit...