Word: mario
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Farber's digging that led to the multiple-murder indictment of Dr. Mario Jascalevich, who is charged with injecting lethal doses of the muscle relaxant curare into three patients in a small suburban New Jersey hospital during 1965-66. The doctor's defense lawyer demanded to see Farber's notes, but Farber refused, citing the First Amendment and a New Jersey "shield" law that allows reporters the privilege of keeping their sources confidential. A New Jersey judge asked to see the notes in private, and Farber still refused. Off to jail he went, cited for contempt...
...were not leaving their desks. June 15, 1978, was a day for executive field rations. Since 9:30 a.m. Webb's ear had been grafted to her telephone, accepting bids for what ended as the most expensive paperback auction in publishing history: $2.2 million for the rights to reprint Mario Puzo's new novel, Fools Die, plus $350,000 to reprint his alltime bestselling saga, The Godfather. The previous record price, $1.9 million, was paid for Colleen McCullough's Australian sheep opera, The Thorn Birds, now playing beach blankets and jammed airline lounges throughout the free-time world...
...paperback success. Authors like John Jakes (The Bastard), institutions like the Agatha Christie estate, romancers like Rosemary Rogers and Victoria Holt owe their millions to the modest little 7-in. by 4-in. volumes that decorate racks at drugstores, airports, supermarkets and book emporiums. No wonder that Mario Puzo's latest effort excited such frantic bidding. With paperback rights, the successful bidder would be able to saturate those ubiquitous wire racks?if Puzo's track record is any guide?with one of next year's biggest blockbusters. Stores would be clamoring for every paperback copy of Fools Die they could...
...feel like a bird that has been let I out of its cage." So said Portugal's Socialist Party Leader Mario Soares last week, after emerging from the country's presidential palace in Belém. In fact, the jowly, amiable politician, known as "Chubby Cheeks" among his countrymen, had just been fired as Premier by Portugal's President, General António Ramalho Eanes. After two years as Portugal's first freely elected Premier since the 1974 April revolution, Soares will leave office as soon as Eanes appoints another Premier. And when he goes, Soares will take the 11 Socialist members...
...called curare were found in the locker of a certain "Doctor X." The state begins to investigate. What some experts believe to be traces of curare are found in exhumed bodies, and a grand jury indicts the man Farber, in his stories, had carefully called only Doctor X?Surgeon Mario Jascalevich?for allegedly murdering five patients...