Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...admiral and his wife Patricia are living in an officer's house at the Washington Navy Yard. He plays tennis at 6:45 a.m. twice a week on Navy courts with a neighbor, Vice Admiral Robert Monroe. He jogs in the evening with his golden retriever Hornblower, occasionally plays squash at the Pentagon...
...middle of the night, a Connecticut housewife, 36, awakes with shaking chills, fever and a splitting headache. Some weeks later, she is so crippled by severe pains in her back, knees and shoulders that she cannot walk without crutches. About the same time, a neighbor's son, 6, develops several large reddish rings on his skin. His temperature rises, and within days a swelling in the boy's left knee leaves him virtually immobilized. A short distance away, a robust man, 26, suddenly finds himself battling a nagging sore throat, a stiff neck and total fatigue. Before long...
...night of Sept. 27, 1972, Bobby Lowe was walking his German shepherd named Ginger in front of his home on Chicago's west side. Lowe noticed William Logan, a neighbor who was a Teamster steward, strolling to his car at the curb. As Lowe vividly recalled the scene in courtroom testimony, an auto suddenly pulled up. Shots rang out, and "Mr. Logan flew back ... into some bushes." Next, said Lowe, a man sprang out of the car, apparently carrying a handgun, and walked up to Logan. Just then, Ginger lunged at the stranger. Lowe said that he grabbed...
Vulnerable Target. With reason, evidently. On the morning of May 7, firemen, summoned by a neighbor, broke into the Jackson house to put out a smoky blaze. They found Mrs. Jackson dead on the kitchen floor, a .22-cal. bullet wound in her stomach. Police, searching the house, soon found bizarre confirmation of the tales about her wealth. Stashed around the place, in toolboxes, drawers, a vacuum-cleaner bag and a garbage can, was some $5 million in crisp bank notes, mostly hundred-dollar bills. An investigation revealed that over a period of time, she had withdrawn at least...
Even before her husband Chester, president of a 250-store grocery chain, died in 1970, Marjorie Jackson (as she was known) entertained rarely and never mixed hi local circles. After Chester's death, she became even more reclusive. Says a neighbor: "The shock of losing him really cracked her." She withdrew into "the Bible," as she put it. She set aside four days of the week as "holy days" for meditation and organ playing. One holiday, she set her dining table for twelve-though no guests were invited and no meal was prepared. Piled high in one room were...