Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mongolia. A diatribe against Moscow's policy toward the developing world was entitled "Soviet Quack Medicine Go to Hell." The Chinese also took delight in the defection to the West of MIG-25 Pilot Viktor Belenko (TIME, Sept. 20), cheering that it "put the Soviets in a fix and shamed them into a rage...
Says Blaine S. Grant, the 45-year-old owner of Sure Deal Motors in Bessemer City: "Racing's like whisky. Someone will spin me out against a wall and I'll get disgusted and quit. By next Tuesday I'll be looking to fix the car so we can race again Saturday...
...help crack the case, the bureau called in Dr. William S. Kroger, an authority on medical hypnosis. Kroger sat with Chowchilla Bus Driver Ed Ray in a Fresno motel room and told him to fix his eyes on a spot on the wall and breathe deeply. Twenty minutes later Ray was under hypnosis. Dr. Kroger then led him through a playback of the kidnaping. The ploy worked. The driver was able to recall all but one digit of the license plate on the kidnapers' white van. The information helped authorities track down three suspects who go on trial later...
Woods' passion for cars was shared by Jim Schoenfeld, whose father is a well-to-do podiatrist. Schoenfeld and Woods owned a fleet of ancient cars, trucks and motorcycles. Occasionally, Rick Schoenfeld would help fix up the derelicts...
...vice investigations. "But much of it goes beyond the bounds of fair police work," complains Chicago Defense Attorney Patrick Tuite. In New York, ousted Special Prosecutor Maurice Nadjari arranged for undercover police to be indicted on phony charges so they could nab judges and others who took bribes to "fix" their cases. In California, Treasury agents obligingly offered to supply suspects with such essentials as paper and ink, then proudly announced arrests growing out of one of the largest hauls of counterfeit money in history...