Word: hornets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...because they would be less likely to be recognized. On the crystalline morning of the holdup, the bandits drove into the Sunset district, a neighborhood of middie-class homes and small businesses, in a green Ford station wagon. They were followed by four other S.L.A. members in a red Hornet sports car. The bank opened at 9 a.m., and at 9:50, the five marched into the bank building. They were identified by the FBI as Patty Hearst, Patricia ("Mizmoon") Soltysik, 24, Nancy Ling Perry, 27, Camilla Hall, 29, and the band's ostensible leader, Donald DeFreeze, 30, who styles...
...passing by outside, Peter Markoff, 59, and Eugene Brennan, 70, and both received severe stomach wounds. Once outside the bank, DeFreeze fired again, at Pharmacist Ken Outlander, 62, but missed. The bandits raced away in the station wagon, their escape covered by the four accomplices in the Hornet. Police and FBI agents could not identify the four people?either four men or three men and a woman?but believed that some were among the five S.L.A. members sought in Patty's abduction. They are Angela Atwood, 25, Emily Harris, 27, and her husband William, 29, Thero Wheeler, 29, and William...
...Total auto sales so far this year are down 21% from early 1973, and sales of some big cars have been cut in half. Sales of AMC's five makes-Gremlin, Hornet, Javelin, Ambassador and Matador-are up 16% from a year ago, boosting the company's share of the U.S. auto market to 6.7%, from...
Right on target too. Today, 70% of AMC's production is in the compact Hornet and the subcompact Gremlin. The little cars have turned out to be a particular hit with younger buyers. In 1967 the average age of an AMC car buyer was 62; today...
...Millions of children received their first exposure to classical music when they heard the background to The FBI in Peace and War (Prokofiev's Love for Three Oranges), or to The Lone Ranger (Rossini's William Tell Overture, Liszt's Les Preludes), or to The Green Hornet (Rimski-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee). The Hornet and the Ranger were creations of Fran Striker and George W. Trendle, who furnished them both with similar appurtenances. The Masked Rider of the Plains had a faithful Indian companion, Tonto, and a 200-carpower horse, Silver. The Green Hornet...