Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just go out there and watch that ball, following it well, and this year I'm thinking right and I'm quicker and I'll hit it out of the park...
Josephine Whitaker, 19, was so proud of her new watch that she rushed to her grandparents' house on the other side of Savile Park in the Yorkshire town of Halifax to show it off. She started for home at 11:40 p.m., declining an offer to stay overnight because she had forgotten her contact-lens case. "Don't worry, I'll run all the way," she assured her grandparents before stepping out into the night...
...next day, a woman waiting for a bus spotted what she thought was a bundle of rags lying on the grass in the large open park known locally as "the moor." Not far away was a single brown stack-heeled shoe. Coming closer, the woman discovered Josephine's body; she had died only 300 yards away from her parents' front door. The bruised, bloodstained corpse bore distinctive wounds, convincing police that a sadistic killer known as the "Yorkshire Ripper" had claimed another victim. Declared George Oldfield, assistant chief constable of the West Yorkshire police: "Clearly, we have...
...body of Guillermo Diaz Lestrem turned up like a ghastly flower in Buenos Aires' elegant Palermo Park late last fall. The cause of death was heart failure and fluid in the lungs; the corpse had bruises on the face and neck. Shortly before he vanished, Lestrem, a defense lawyer and former judge, had prepared a writ of habeas corpus-on his own behalf. He had discovered that unknown men were looking for him and feared that he would become yet another of Argentina's "desaparecidos...
Wandering into the New Town section of Chicago's North Side, a visitor quickly notices the changed city scene: male couples in tight jeans and with close-cropped hair walk together; the crowd watching a volleyball game in Lincoln Park is all male, so are most of the people taking the spring air on a strip of beach along Lake Michigan. In the past few years New Town has become Chicago's first center of open homosexual activity, with an initial result that could have been predicted a decade ago: last summer roving gangs of young toughs shouting anti-homosexual...