Word: hairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sometimes looters were let go with a warning. One experienced pair of 26-year-old cops, with modish long hair and sideburns, spun around Bedford-Stuyvesant in a battered 1970 Dodge painted to look like a gypsy taxi. They spied a young boy carrying a big box. The frightened kid dropped the carton, and glass tinkled. "What's in the box, Johnny?" asked one of the policemen. ''Booze, man, liquor," replied the kid. "Where'd you get it, Johnny?" "I bought it, man, paid money for it." The cop peered into the box and saw the markings of a newly...
...stocky fellow with curly red hair, Beltrante, 49, runs Investigations, Inc., his own twelve-person detective agency, out of Alexandria, Va. He is just as proud of the autographed pictures of George McGovern and Gerald Ford on the wall as he is of the electronic tools of his sometimes esoteric trade. It was he who debugged the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate after the White House plumbers were caught wiring the place. And four years later, Ford's election committee hired Beltrante to screen applicants for key strategy posts...
...affidavit filed in the case states that a bloody hack saw was found at the Kearney-Hill apartment in Redondo Beach. The apartment also yielded hair samples and bloodstains that match those of the victim LaMay, whose body -according to the affidavit-was discovered in a plastic bag taken from the Hughes Aircraft...
...more effective than the superstitious rites of old. The Yankees' Jake Powell, operating in the '30s on the then widely held belief that finding a hairpin brought base hits, once followed a woman for three miles after noticing that a large bone pin in her hair was loose. When it finally fell, Powell scooped it up, rushed to the park and -confidence restored-tripled his first time up. Al Lopez, who was a National League catcher in the '30s and '40s, once ate kippered herring for breakfast 18 days in a row trying to preserve...
Terrified parents in the area are now insisting that their daughters wear their long hair up, bleach it, or have their dates at home. Some girls have decided not to date until the killer is caught, and others are adopting unusual evening wear: loose sweaters and large caps to disguise themselves as males. "I'm scared," said one Queens girl. "I used to kiss my boyfriend in front of the house...