Word: machinists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. George G. Blaisdell, 83, founder of the cigarette-lighter company from which he received his nickname, "Mr. Zippo"; in Miami Beach. An oilman, Blaisdell noticed a wealthy friend using a cheap, efficient Austrian cigarette lighter and realized that a demand existed for such a gadget. Blaisdell, a trained machinist, marketed his own windproof model on which he gave a lifetime guarantee and, persevering through several years of poor sales, became enormously successful during and after World...
...spokesman said last night the indictment alleges that Machinist and Dipietro sold four of the paintings on October 19, 1976 at Machinist's home...
Shirley D. Machinist, a Brookline art dealer, Joseph L. Maggio, also of Brookline, and Edward Dipietro of Malden were named in two-count federal indictments handed down by a federal grand jury in Boston on Wednesday, spokesman for the Boston office of the FBI said last night...
Richard Bates, special agent in charge of the Boston office of the FBI, said in a statement that Dipietro was arrested yesterday and held on $7500 bond. Maggio surrendered yesterday, and Machinist plans to surrender today, Bates added...
Philadelphia: Tough-Guy Style A federal grand jury last week indicted three Philadelphia policemen for violating the civil rights of Machinist Edgardo Ortiz, 26. One night last June, according to eyewitnesses, the cops rapped on Ortiz's glass front door and demanded to question him about a report of a family disturbance. When Ortiz angrily protested, they smashed through the glass and pummeled him with fists and clubs in the presence of his wife and three-year-old daughter. Next, neighbors reported, the cops tossed Ortiz through a window, handcuffed him and threw him into a police van. They...