Word: holcombe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From such tests as these and others, Stanley engineers hope to learn just how much of a jar a human can endure, and for how long. Says Expert Galen A. Holcomb: "We don't want to know how to break a man's neck. We just want to know the point before breaking...
...state penitentiary at Lansing, Kans. and the farmhouse of Herbert Clutter at Holcomb, Kans., 400 miles apart, belonged to separate worlds, and the Clutter family could not have imagined that a hidden thread connected the two. Wheat-grower Herbert Clutter, 48, his wife Bonnie and their teen-age children Kenyon and Nancy might have thought themselves the happiest and most secure family in Kansas. They were prosperous; they lived in a peaceful, law-abiding community; they were liked and admired. But one day a year or so ago, a prisoner in the penitentiary, a sometime farm hand who had once...