Word: mix-up
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...strutting, eyes popping, cakewalking at treble speed, as if she were strobe-lit from the inside. Midler has, as the French say, a world on her balcony, and it threatened to topple right out of her purple satin slip as she flounced across the stage to snipe at a mix-up by her band with dime store hauteur: "This act is shabbay, I'm telling you; tray shabbay...
When neither girl returned, their parents went to the police, but the police treated both disappearances as routine runaway cases. Although Mrs. Place told them the license number she had copied, there was a mix-up about where the car was registered. Months of inquiries passed before Mrs. Place finally managed to trace the Datsun to a small apartment house in Stuart, about 80 miles north of her home...
What happened between February and March to send the agency to New Hampshire remains unclear, but evidently more strings were pulled in Manchester and Washington. Neither Gill nor Loeb will describe how the mix-up was rectified...
What happened between early February, when the Hoover-Cleveland-Loeb correspondence took place, and March 3, when Gill says the CIA paid her, remains a secret. Gill would not elaborate how the "mix-up" was rectified...
Embarrassed police spoke with amazement of "dead ringers," "twins" and "doubles." In fact, however, the mix-up was merely a reminder of how frequently unreliable police lineups are for the purpose of identification. Only four months before, a Queens teen-ager was misidentified in another rape case. Leonard Gordon, Schrager's defense attorney, spent 20 years as a policeman. He notes that "police can often put pressure on a witness to clear up their caseload." They can press for a quick identification, fearing that the longer a witness mulls, the more likely he is to have doubts. Often others...