Word: names
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...students consider me a hero," he says, "but the teachers consider me a scab." When one school secretary asked a teacher if he had seen one of his nonstriking colleagues anywhere in the halls, he looked at her blankly. "Who?" he asked. "I don't know that name...
...paper bags and manila envelopes stuffed with cash from the Fidelity offices. Before his elimination, Underbill deposited large sums of money in a Bahamian bank account. Thevis then borrowed money from the bank. An attorney placed shares of AT&T worth $297,000 in a trust in Thevis' name at a bank on Nauru Island, a tax haven in the South Pacific. The stock was then sold on the Hong Kong exchange, and the cash was deposited in Barclays Bank in Hong Kong...
...also believes it knows what Thevis did with some of the money. In his diary, according to King's testimony, the pornographer wrote "Liz [a pet name for Bowden]-$6,000," then added that a rifle had been purchased. In one of Thevis' datebooks, there is an entry on Oct. 25, the day of the Underbill murder: "RU killed." A diary also showed that the balding pornographer had been scheduled to get a hair transplant the day after the ambush but had called...
Brando himself. Brando had been the key to the film because his magic name had brought in other stars and, more important, other investors. But now, reported one of his friends, Agent Jay Kanter, Brando felt he should play Jor-El "like a green suitcase." "A green suitcase?" asked Donner. "Yes," said the friend. "Marlon wants to put a green suitcase on the sound stage and let his voice come...
...Slocum. His choice of villain is a shrewd one. Leviathan is even more dangerous and ungovernable than any vessel described in Noël Mostert's Supership. Scott, who has published five previous novels, limns his driven people as stylishly as his boats. As for Peter Hardin, he will surely name his next sloop Ajaratu...