Word: heard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Diego, beefed-up U.S. patrols picked up 35,100 illegals last month, compared with 21,300 in August of last year. Says a Border Patrol agent: "They are anticipating that they are going to heaven in the U.S. where all the goodies are." Many of them probably never heard of Carter's program. "And even if they knew," says Leonel Castillo, Immigration and Naturalization commissioner, "the prime factor is jobs." No matter why they come, many of their predecessors are say ing, the goodies may ultimately be harder to come by than ever...
...There were two Cadillacs parked here, and all of a sudden they just floated down the street," recounted Mike Collard, a cook at the Plaza III restaurant. Barber Gene Katzman heard "people hollering from rooftops, 'Here we are -help us!' Kids were scared and crying. The people were panicked...
...according to Connor: Molinas refused to pay a $50,000 debt to Ullo. Connor says he waited in the car while Ullo crouched behind a neighbor's backyard fence, waiting for Molinas to return home. Then, Connor has testified, Ullo dropped Molinas with a single shot; Connor heard the popping sound that is characteristic of a silencer-equipped...
Calderazzo's sojourn soon ended at Ullo's San Fernando Valley home. The FBI's two other witnesses, Robert Zander, 28, and Craig Petzold, 32, say that they were working at Ullo's place when they heard screams from a guesthouse. Minutes later, they said, Ullo summoned them to the house, where they saw Calderazzo's body. They testified that Ullo gave Zander a .22 automatic with instructions that it be delivered to Connor. Then the pair were ordered to dump Calderazzo's body in the desert, where it became fodder for scavenging animals...
...most expressive backs in all history. His hands became a legend, and he kept them in the spotlight, even when his players were in penumbral gloom. In his mind's ear he heard orchestral sounds never made before-and proceeded to make them. "Music appeals to me for what can be done with it," Leopold Stokowski once remarked. By that he meant that he knew better than Beethoven or Brahms how instruments should sound, and that Johann Sebastian Bach surely would have loved his lush orchestral transcriptions of the Toccata and Fugue in D minor. For such arrogance...