Word: murder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last month when two non-union printers were shot in a Los Angeles motel; one died recently. Police have not traced the crime to the unions, but the Examiner had no doubts. In a front-page editorial, the paper put the blame squarely on the strikers. "This cold-blooded murder," said the paper, "heads a long list of crimes and violence since eleven trade unions went on strike." The paper then proceeded to list 150 incidents. "The Herald-Examiner," concluded the editorial, "will not be moved by intimidation." The paper offered a $10,000 reward for information leading...
Claudio Buchwald plays the Author at Quincy House, a self-pitying sort who is trying to piece together a melodrama of murder, poverty, and lust from a collection of uncooperative protagonists. At the outset Anouilh has the courtesy to apologize, though the Author, to Pirandello. After that, Buchwald is left to intervene periodically as the play drifts out of his control. He does so with reasonable skill, although his expression of unrelieved anguish and his habit of passing off fidgeting as unease begin to wear after a while...
...whole train and pulled one car full of passengers into a shed where, with the help of films and sound effects, they convinced the passengers that there had been a wreck. In another, they saved the day by starting an earthquake with supersonic waves. This week, they unnerved a murder-for-hire chieftain by making him believe in ghosts; first by projecting a likeness of Phelps's face into a cloud of carbon dioxide in a darkened room, then by propping up the unconscious body of one of the killer's underlings and using a face mask...
Died. Joe B. Brown, 59, Dallas district judge who presided over Jack Ruby's 1964 trial for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald; of a heart attack; in Dallas. An easygoing Texan, Brown drew criticism for permitting noisy spats between lawyers and letting cameramen record the verdict on live TV; more serious, he entertained so much questionable testimony that a higher court later struck down the decision and ordered a retrial away from Dallas...
...subtitled "A Chronicle of American Apathy" reaches the same conclusion. In the U.S., he says, "a combination of political expediency, diplomatic evasion, isolationism, indifference and raw bigotry played directly into the hands of Adolf Hitler even as he set in motion the final plans for the greatest mass murder in history...