Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hour, two trolleys and a bus later we arrived at the apartment of relatives. They had beds and showers and an empty refrigerator. But food was not our primary consideration, for we had come to San Francisco to see baseball...
Captured along with Patty was her close companion, Wendy Yoshimura, 32. An hour earlier, outside an old white two-story house three miles away, the FBI had arrested two of Patty's other friends: robust William Harris, 30, and his wan and tired wife, Emily, 28. All four were comrades-in-arms in the explosive and tiny cult of revolutionaries who grandiosely called themselves the Symbionese Liberation Army. With the arrests, said the FBI, the S.L.A. had ceased to exist. All dozen members of the group, which had first shown willingness to kill in the ambush-slaying of Oakland...
...hour and ten minutes after the Harrises were arrested, FBI Special Agent Tom Padden and San Francisco Police Inspector Tim Casey climbed the stairs to the apartment, still not knowing what they would find. They pounded on the door. It opened, and Wendy Yoshimura looked out. Behind her was the taller woman-Patty Hearst. Padden warned Yoshimura: "Don't move or I'll blast your head off." Neither woman stirred, although each had a .38-cal. pistol in her purse...
...mediators, owners and his teammates on one yellow wall phone in the kitchen of his home in Canton, Mass., south of Boston. Downing Cokes by the dozen to keep awake, the short (5 ft. 10 in.) pass catcher and onetime Snow White dwarf at Disneyland went on a 24-hour schedule. "Don't mind me if I'm a little incoherent," he warned callers. "I haven't slept for three days...
...Weicker. Monday-morning quarterbacks will have their greatest field day with Howard's uncharacteristic tension. "Our show will have a different feel with Howard," Arledge had boasted. But alas, even Cosell's talent for sardonic invective was dulled. Obviously reading from cue cards, he made his finest hour seem 90 minutes long. Sinatra was not punning when he predicted: "This will be a millstone on American...