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Speaking over the telephone, the terrified hostages begged Huntsville officials to comply with the convicts' demands. At first the requests were sartorial: three tailored suits, three parrs of Nunn-Bush shoes, shirts, ties, cologne and toothbrushes. These were promptly provided. Next, the convicts asked for walkie-talkies and bulletproof helmets. These, too, were delivered. But the helmets were not acceptable. Shouting that he could tell the difference between "a toy" and a genuine helmet, Carrasco fired several shots past Bob Heard, 27, a prison guard who had been designated first of the hostages to die. His voice cracking with...
...before the current Exorcist craze, sampled the opinions of 3,546 adults across the U.S. and found that 48% were certain that the devil exists. Another 20% thought his existence probable. In a similar 1964 poll, only 37% of those surveyed were convinced that the devil exists. Clyde Z. Nunn, senior research associate of the center, attributes the change to a mood of helplessness in a world where "things seem to be falling apart." In response to a question about the future, those who believed in the devil also tended to think that things were getting worse. Trying to make...
Strolling around Perry (pop. 8,500), the Houston County seat, Georgia's junior Senator asked his constituents time and again about Watergate and Nixon's future, only to have his questions brushed aside. As Nunn had expected from his regular soundings, Georgians were mainly concerned with energy, inflation and the country's economic future. The political scandal was a poor fourth...
...People tell me they wish I'd worry more about energy and the economy and less about Watergate," says Nunn, 35, a conservative Democrat. "This is not to say they don't deplore Watergate. But people down here want to keep things in perspective. They want the truth, but they don't want to kill the country. They don't want to wake up six months from now to be told, O.K., we've got all the truth about Watergate, but now we've got you a depression...
...people are crying out for one thing from the Government, Nunn believes, it is leadership. The fact that neither Congress nor the President is currently providing such leadership has not disheartened the voters, he maintains. "Georgians don't have all that much faith in the people holding office," says Nunn. "But they do in the System...