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...some 20 leads to check out, including Pass's boss, William Jenkins Turnblazer, 52, president of the union's District 19 in the coal fields of eastern Kentucky and Tennessee. Turnblazer was a good friend of Boyle, who had given him his job, but Sprague had a hunch that the mild-mannered unionist was a troubled man who knew something. Sprague asked FBI Special Agent Henry Quinn to go after Turnblazer very carefully: "Take all the time in the world...
...informed source close to CPB said, "I have a hunch, that certain public affairs programs are found a little bit offensive in the White House... We keep hearing stories that there are people in the White House who don't like public broadcasting at all. I don't believe all those stories. However, the names are always the same: Buchanan, who writes the speeches; Charles Colson (until a few weeks ago, political advisory to the President); and Peter Flanigan, the man to whom Clay Whitehead always had to answer. They truly are concerned about these 'talking-head' shows that...
...Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, did not share the skepticism. As part of his doctoral work, he decided to study the seismic records of the swarms of microquakes that had occurred during 1971 in the Blue Mountain lake region of New York's Adirondack Mountains. Aggarwal's hunch paid off. Writing in Nature, he and his associates report that they also found large and significant changes in the relative velocity of P and S waves prior to more serious tremors. Furthermore, they note, the duration and intensity of the effect-which changes the relative velocity of the waves...
...hunch that two-term Republican Senator Jack Miller, 56, was vulnerable this time around, Iowa Congressman John Culver made plans to challenge him. But Culver lost heart at the last minute and the nomination went to his administrative assistant, Dick Clark, 43. Clark, though a political unknown, ran such a skillful campaign that he will now outshine his former boss as Iowa's junior Senator...
Although Hitler tried to portray his early years as serene, Langer postulated from Hitler's character and writings that his father must have been a drunken, menacing brute. (Interviews in the 1950s with neighbors of the Hitler family substantiated this professional hunch, Historian Waite reports.) Because children view the universe in the light of their home experience, Hitler probably saw the whole world as "extremely dangerous, uncertain and unjust." This was the origin of his sense of powerlessness...