Word: filed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...black mark by O'Hanlon Reports Inc. of New York. Under the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act, he was entitled to have access to "the nature and substance of all the credit information." But Millstone was told by O'Hanlon's St. Louis office that his file was on its way to New York. Eventually, he was read a partial summary, which tagged him as "very much disliked by neighbors ... a hippie type ... participated in peace demonstrations... strongly suspected of being a drug user...
Enraged, Millstone, an assistant managing editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, went to court. There, evidence made it clear that the file-in-New York story-plus a rule that the consumer himself could not read the summary or even touch it-were standard O'Hanlon techniques for dealing with inquiries. In addition, O'Hanlon's investigator, who earned $1.85 for his efforts, actually interviewed only one neighbor and failed to verify what he was told...
...calls himself Nick Charles to relieve the tedium of an inquiry. His Boston office, a block or so away from the infamous bar in George Higgins' The Friends of Eddie Coyle, could be Philip Marlowe's in Los Angeles: "Second floor front, one room with a desk file cabinet and two chairs in case Mrs. Onassis came in with her husband, mail slot and pile of mail." L.A. has long been the culture capital of suspense fiction. Boston may now be moving up. In Parker's God Save the Child, kidnapers instruct that the ransom...
...identified, told The Crimson: "Most Honeywell employees are dead asleep. They just don't want to be bothered. Some middle level workers, who are at least aware of the anti-personnel weapons issue, have told me that bombs in Indochina are simply too far away for rank and file people to concern themselves with. They are too busy with their day to day work...
...victims, but the police did not move in on him at once: there was always the chance that he had discarded the shirt, perhaps given it to the Salvation Army, and that someone else had been wearing it in Leonia. Only when Kallinger's fingerprints, which were on file as a result of his arrest for child abuse, were found to match one at the scene of the Susquehanna Township robbery did Harrisburg police arrest Kallinger and charge him with one count of burglary, four counts of armed robbery and four counts of kidnaping. His son Michael...