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...school in Memphis. She was not yet 15 when they met. They got married when she was 21, and a year later, in 1968, they had a daughter. After that, Elvis spent a lot of time away from her until they divorced in 1973. Presley became reclusive, paranoid. He immured himself among roomfuls of flamboyant furniture in Graceland. He took up karate, amassed a vast collection of guns and police badges and, according to the trio of tattletale bodyguards, would travel not only with a brace of handguns but such heavy armaments as a Thompson submachine...
...work of criminal psychologists in providing police with personality profiles of the likely killer was more accurate and perhaps did help narrow the search. Such a profile issued by police last May described the killer as "neurotic, schizophrenic and paranoid, with religious aspects to his thinking process, as well as hints of demonic possession and compulsion. He is probably shy and odd, a loner inept at establishing personal relationships, especially with women." Psychologists say Berkowitz is a psychopath, and all evidence points to his lonely nature and inability to relate normally to women...
...suburbia and watched, like a soap opera addict, as one top Nixon aide after another came before the Senate Watergate committee to hint at the various venal sins committed by the administration still in power. Like so many others, I drew the routine conclusion that Nixon was a paranoid scum, and wondered how much longer he would cling to the Oval Office. It took them a year to flush...
With his citadel under siege, Bluhdorn is silent as a mime on all these matters, and no other officer will offer as much as a syllable of explanation. One middle-level employee describes the current atmosphere at G & W as "paranoid." It was rather startling that a routine registration statement filed lately by Associates First Capital Corp., a financial-services subsidiary of G & W, was rejected by the SEC because of incomplete disclosure. Even more anguish has been caused to shareholders by the drop in the company's stock: it has sagged by more than 20% this year, leaving...
...evident that Americans have now become programmed for conspiracy. Conspiracy today is as Communism was to Joe McCarthy, there is one under every bed. Has Watergate made us all paranoid...