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Word: kit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Option Play. In Indianapolis, Delta Tau Delta fraternity brothers at Butler University welcomed one Ray Lincolnholl, highly recommended football prospect, as an overnight guest, next day found Lincolnholl missing, and so were a wristwatch, ring, sweater, leather belt, shaving kit, fountain pen, electric shaver and typewriter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 15, 1960 | 2/15/1960 | See Source »

...began the climax of a remarkable murder trial, concerning, as most do, lust and money, but also involving such elements as wife swapping and credit ratings, such characters as a self-styled lady killer, a brash mistress and a hysterical maid, such props as a "do-it-yourself murder kit" and a gift Cadillac-and centering around Finch's wife Barbara, found dead last summer with a bullet in her back and three skull fractures. On trial with Finch for her murder was his mistress, Carole Tregoff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Doctor's Dilemma | 2/15/1960 | See Source »

...said Cody, he had had no intention of killing Barbara Finch. When Cody failed to act, the prosecution contended. Finch and Carole decided to do the job themselves. They assembled the "murder kit" in an attaché case: rope, carving knife, drugs, surgical gloves, .38-cal. shells, hypodermic syringes and needles. The plan, declared Prosecutor Whichello: ambush Barbara, knock her out with Seconal, inject a fatal air bubble into her bloodstream, and then put her behind the wheel of her car and push it off the cliff. Late one night last July, testified the housemaid, she heard screams near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Doctor's Dilemma | 2/15/1960 | See Source »

...American Heritage (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Destiny West is a vignette from the life of John Charles Fremont, pioneer of America's 19th century continental expansion. With Jeffrey Hunter (Fremont), Howard St. John (Thomas Hart Benton), Susan Strasberg (Jessie Benton Fremont) and James Daly (Kit Carson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Jan. 25, 1960 | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

...stealthily surrounded the farmhouse and sat waiting for reinforcements. A barking dog alerted the bandits, and in the first exchange, two bullets caught Sabater in the foot and thigh. Sabater ordered Salas and his wife to safety in the attic, calmly dressed his own wounds with a first-aid kit he carried and, firing from windows, held off the green-uniformed policemen all afternoon. But troopers were converging on the farmhouse from every direction, and when darkness fell, the trapped bandit chief decided on a desperate gambit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Anarchist's End | 1/18/1960 | See Source »

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