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...Francesco Coco, 67, preferred to eat lunch at home, and last week that habit cost him his life. Coco and a bodyguard were climbing a long flight of steps to the prosecutor's Genoa house when three men stepped out of an archway and shot them down at pointblank range with heavy-caliber pistols. Two more assassins, meanwhile, closed in on the blue official Fiat from which Coco had just emerged and pumped bullets into the police chauffeur. As the three victims lay dying, their killers vanished; two of them sped away down a labyrinth of alleys aboard...
...always, the Federal Reserve, which believes that it must operate in the deepest secrecy, refused to confirm that idea. Asked pointblank whether the board was in fact feeding a bit more lendable money into the nation's banking system, inscrutable Chairman Arthur Burns rumbled: "I couldn't answer that-I'm a central banker." But evidence of a slight loosening of Federal Reserve policy had already surfaced. Little more than a week ago, in an effort to calm jitters in the credit markets caused by the bankruptcy petition of W.T. Grant Co. (TIME...
...leader: "We feel that they deserve a chew." A pert stewardess plunked down $500 to "harvest" her first buffalo; then she pointed to the hoofs: "Jim, did I want those for footstools?" In the program's grossest scene, a languorous fallow deer was shot seven times at pointblank range; then a burly rifleman grasped the antlers for his mandatory macho snapshot...
...arms, the arsenal we were promised that wouldn't fit into a garage?" In any case, four of the conspirators took one of the rifles with them when they ambushed the dictator in May 1961, though they actually gunned him down with a sawed-off shotgun fired at pointblank range as he cringed by the side...
Though Nixon and his aides have pointedly refused to renew any such pledge this time, the Justices chose not to ask St. Clair pointblank whether Nixon would comply. St. Clair adroitly sidestepped whenever the question seemed imminent. Yet the subject became tantalizingly relevant when several Justices objected to Jaworski's charge that Nixon was setting himself up as the sole judge of the Constitution. As Justice Stewart said...