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...terrorist, with coat of arms indicating Irish, P.L.O., Argentinian, Angolan-quartered with Lebanese, Italian, American and a few other good lines -bearing a handgun, rifle, submachine gun, knife, grenade and or bomb, with crossed bandoliers and fear rampant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Dec. 29, 1975 | 12/29/1975 | See Source »

...becomes a victim in Murder By Death, his first movie as an actor instead of a screenwriter. Capote allowed as how a night in the slammer was welcome respite from his daytime job. "Making movies is hard work," burbled Truman. "They had me lying on the floor with a knife in my back for two days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 29, 1975 | 12/29/1975 | See Source »

...outset News Reporter Douglas Glazier, a police-beat veteran, sensed the possibility of a railroading. The nomadic bikers had been picked up elsewhere on another offense; they were convicted of the Albuquerque murder after a motel maid fingered them and testified she had been raped, tortured with a hot knife and made to watch the killing. Glazier rounded up gasoline credit-card receipts backing the bikers' claim that they had not been in Albuquerque at the time. Then a former policeman admitted to Glazier that the maid had told him she had lied. News Reporter Stephen Cain found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Three Fights for Justice | 12/29/1975 | See Source »

...wife downstairs to call the police. McKinnon then discovered that Knight had died of multiple stab wounds. He and the intruder grappled, and the man ran into the hallway and jumped into the elevator with Rosemary. The man threw Rosemary to the floor and flailed at her with a knife. She fought for her life by kicking up at him. Although she suffered two wounds, she was able to run off the elevator when it jolted to a stop. By the time the police arrived, her attacker had escaped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCANDALS: Murder in Philadelphia | 12/22/1975 | See Source »

...country. I left a little farm in the state of Michoacan in 1942, and I would not return there for anything. I never went to school. Here my children go to school." Ortega and his family of eight live in a single-room jacale at "La Cuchilla" (The Knife), a squatters' community on a ledge high above El Trotche. His food bill is $4 a day, and he must somehow find money for school uniforms and books for the children. To help out, his wife works as a laundress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: How the Bottom Billion Live | 12/22/1975 | See Source »

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