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...just as drunk as they were, and very nearly as foolish, I stood out between them with my arms raised, and their headlights illuminated me like a Christian idol on some South American mountain top. I dropped my arms, and the two cars slid by me spitting and kicking gravel...
...most touching song is "Sam Stone," about a Vietnam vet who comes back a heroin addict. The gravel-voiced Prine is the man's child, singing: "There's a hole in Daddy's arm where all the money goes," and the effect is chilling...
...evening news on July 15 stunned the country: a busload of 26 children from the small California farming community of Chowchilla had disappeared. The youngsters and their driver had been kidnaped by three masked men brandishing pistols. The victims were driven to a gravel quarry 100 miles away and forced into an abandoned trailer truck buried 6 ft. underground. Sixteen hours later the captives managed to dig themselves out and were soon rescued. The FBI quickly interrogated them but found no answer to the question: Who were the abductors...
Eight months ago, a guard had found Woods and some other men digging a big hole in a gravel pit that was owned by the suspect's father. The kidnap victims were held in the body of a trailer truck half-buried in the pit, and the guard remembered the previous incident and tipped the police about Woods. Police now believe that Woods not only bought the van in which the children and driver were held but that he also purchased the two Navy surplus panel trucks used to carry them to the site...
...Chowchilla to a quarry in Livermore, Calif. There three kidnapers wearing stocking masks forced their victims down a small tunnel into a buried 25-ft.-long moving van. Sixteen hours later the prisoners dug themselves out. The elder Woods-who was cooperating fully with investigators-owns the California Rock & Gravel Co., site of the quarry where the mass abduction ended. On his estate, 29 miles distant, police found a virtual junkyard-100 vehicles, including several wrecked police cars, a fire engine, assorted trucks and vans, and a tractor that could have been used to tow around the underground trailer; apparently...