Word: macdonald
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...Final Shot. Weyer now had only to substantiate Violet's story with physical proof. Into the case came Ballistics Expert Stanley MacDonald, Multnomah County detective chief in Portland, Ore. MacDonald examined fabric shreds, wall sections, photographs, figured the directions of the four shots, compared firings from the shotgun. Two months later he presented his findings: Marion Sill had fired three times at Violet, then reloaded the gun; the fourth shot, which entered Sill's neck from a perpendicular angle, was the one that splattered his flesh on the ceiling, the one that Violet triggered from the floor. Furthermore...
...Cyprus, where he had gone to cover the Egyptian fighting, 27-year-old Angus Macdonald of London's weekly Spectator fell last week under a Cypriot assassin's bullet, shot in the back on a Nicosia street. He was the third newsman to die in the Middle Eastern crisis. Ironically, his last dispatch argued "the bankruptcy of [Britain's Cyprus] policy of shoot first, negotiate afterwards...
...Congressional elections, Torbert Macdonald, Democrat, is favored in the 8th district, and incumbent Laurence Curtis is given the edge over Jackson Holtz in the 10th district...
...size of his monthly payment and whether he can carry it. Household Finance Corp., whose 757 offices shoveled out $771 million in installment loans last year, borrows funds at 3.7% to 5%, lends them at an effective rate of 24%. But few balk. Explains H.F.C. President H. E. MacDonald: "When a man comes to us for a loan, he comes not as a customer or a client but as an applicant, with hat in hand...
...bigger reason is the nation's apparently unshakable faith in a future of total employment, total production and total consumption. In Seattle, Gordon L. MacDonald, 30, a $6,000-a-year draftsman, has bought a car and all his appliances and furniture on credit, in addition to paying $59 a month on a three-bedroom home, says that he has no idea how much interest he is paying or when he will be out of debt. Shrugs MacDonald: "I'm not too worried about it. I expect my income to increase steadily through the years...