Word: marts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Clay L. Shaw, 61, the only person ever to stand trial for the assassination of President John Kennedy; of cancer; in New Orleans. In 1967, two years after his retirement as managing director of New Orleans' International Trade Mart, Shaw was accused by New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison of conspiring with Lee Harvey Oswald to kill J.F.K. After many months of noisy proceedings-during which Garrison produced a motley assortment of informants and witnesses-the jury took less than an hour to acquit Shaw in March 1969. Garrison then tried to prosecute Shaw for perjury...
CENTRAL CINEMA 11, starts WED Savage Messiah. 6:15, 9:45. Walking Stick. 8. Wknd Mart...
...Borbón y Dampierre, 36, who has the additional advantage of being Franco's grandson by marriage and the father of the Leader's only great-grandchild. Two weeks ago to mark the christening in the Pardo Palace chapel of infant Francisco Borbón Martínez-Bordíu, Alfonso and his wife Carmencita were designated Duke and Duchess of Cádiz. Franco's reasoning in restoring the monarchy was to provide Spaniards with a familiar anchor after he is gone. Cynics refer to the King-designate as "Juan Carlos the Brief." "Everywhere...
...route, the trio maniacally distributed money up and down the aisle while reassuring the passengers that they had nothing against them. At José Martí terminal in Havana one of the gunmen disembarked to dicker with Cuban officials; he returned two hours later grousing: "These people here treat you worse than George Wallace or Lester Maddox." The plane headed back to the U.S. and eventually landed at McCoy A.F.B. in Orlando. There the odyssey nearly ended in disaster. After the hijackers demanded to talk to President Nixon, the word came down from Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray that...
...shot and wounded Copilot Billy H. Johnson. Taxiing on nothing but rims wrapped in tattered rubber, the veteran pilot, Captain William R. Haas, 39, miraculously got the plane off the ground. He was again ordered to Cuba, where he set down on a foam-covered runway at José Martí. Cuban authorities immediately confiscated the money and led the hijackers away. The passengers and crew were flown back to Miami. Their 29 hours of terror were ended...