Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some 17 days after he had disappeared. The body of Jill Robinson, 12, was discovered Dec. 16 beside a freeway, four days after she was reported missing from her home in Royal Oak. Kristine Mihelich, a brown-haired, blue-eyed ten-year-old from nearby Berkley, vanished on Jan. 2. Her body turned up 18 days later in a roadside snowbank. These victims may all have been sexually molested-the Stebbins boy was. Each body was found fully clothed; two were dead from having been smothered. The exception was Jill Robinson, killed by a shotgun blast that the police think...
...tracing bureau for the common man in February and received more than 1,000 inquiries its first month. For easy-to-trace families, Debrett's can deliver eight generations for roughly $200. In the U.S., there is a nourishing mail-order trade in expensive coats of arms (TIME, Jan. 27, 1975), but these are almost all bogus. Regardless of his surname, only the eldest son of the eldest son of families who actually bore arms is entitled to a shield. In Genealogist J. Charles Thompson's words: "You have no more business using another man's arms...
...Died. Jan Patoĉka, 69, senior spokesman for the Czechoslovak Charter 77 group of more than 600 intellectuals, which calls on the Prague government to protect the human rights of its citizens; of a brain hemorrhage; in Prague. A former professor of philosophy, Patoĉka was hospitalized for exhaustion earlier this month after prolonged questioning over a two-day period at the Interior Ministry...
...Jan. 7, 1976. Miklos Petrovics, 40, seized two employees of a Culver City, Calif, branch of Bank America, demanded that the bank's air be filtered through bird seed, that the manager "cleanse himself in the ocean" and that "everyone join hands, walk to the ocean and meditate." Result: an FBI agent talked him into surrendering...
When Bailey won last November, the attorney general passed to the legislature the problem of whether he was eligible to serve. On Jan. 4 the other 99 legislators were sworn in while Bailey sat silently at his desk, his head bowed. The legislature appointed a committee to review the case, and that brought in the industrious Captain Pare. In 1961, Pare reported, Bailey was convicted in Medford, Mass., for possession of $2,112 worth of stolen goods and fined $100; two years later, again in Medford, police seized Bailey with $700 worth of hot merchandise. This time he was fined...