Word: fixe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within a few months, his mother was found dead, murdered. Brown said she had been "nagging and fussing" at him to fix the windmill, admitted that he had "lost his head" and shot her. He was given a 40-to-55-year term in the State Penitentiary, but because he was a model prisoner, the governor three times reduced his sentence. Last week, while working on a garbage detail ten days before his release, Prisoner Brown got some news that would make his coming-out party a real success: he was about to become a rich man. The Magnolia Petroleum...
...Chicago, tough Tony Accardo, reigning boss of the old Capone mob, bought himself a magnificent 22-room mansion (original cost: $500,000), in the swank suburb of River Forest, hired 20 decorators to fix up the place...
...scandals dredged up in the college basketball fix investigation (TIME, Feb. 26 et seq.) prompted the New York Times to take a long (20 columns) look at "the impact of athletics on education." Times Reporter Charles Grutzner, working with twelve bird-dogging assistants, spent 3½ weeks covering 40 college campuses. By last week he had flushed a covey of shockers...
District Attorney Frank Hogan, who questioned the men today, said that his aides were on the trail of the person who arranged the fix...
...China's offshore situation -consists of 100 combat vessels, not more than a third of which are serviceable. Besides spare parts, the.navy's main need is for U.S. technicians: a whole radar complex will fail because one vacuum tube has blown; a U.S. technician could find and fix the trouble in ten minutes...