Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...homicide-squad detectives. Said one: "It looked like a battlefield up there." Police said that every room in the house showed signs of a struggle. The victims appeared to have been dead for about twelve hours when they were discovered in the morning by a maid, Winifred Chapman, who ran screaming to neighbors for help. "This is a tough one," a detective said at first. "We don't have anything but bodies." But the police soon had more than that. They arrested William Garretson, 19, a caretaker who lived in a guesthouse on the property, and booked...
...other signs of industrial civilization floated by the expedition's leaky boat. What most appalled Heyerdahl were sheets of "pelagic particles." At first he assumed that his craft was in the wake of an oil tanker that had just cleaned its tanks. But on five occasions he ran into the same substances covering the water so thickly, he told TIME Researcher Nancy Williams, that "it was unpleasant to dip our toothbrushes into the sea. Once the water was too dirty to wash our dishes...
Several other sensational allegations were dropped. One was that Noguchi commonly ran around his office brandishing his favorite surgical knife and shouting "I'll kill him! I'll kill him!" about anyone with whom he happened to be angry. Another was that he had prayed that "a 727, loaded to capacity, would crash into International Hotel" so that he could be seen by the press, silhouetted against the flames...
Last week, reinstalled in the coroner's office, Noguchi ran into a personnel problem. One deputy medical examiner resigned; eleven other employees (out of a staff of 110) applied for transfers to other county agencies. Among them: the physician who had been acting coroner, two top administrative assistants, and Noguchi's own secretary...
...family's multimillion-dollar enterprises, then as ardent New Dealer. In 1936, he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy and three years later assumed the full Cabinet post, in which he supervised the Navy's intensive shipbuilding program. Then, as reform-minded New Jersey Governor, he ran head-on into the corrupt political machine of Jersey City Mayor Frank Hague, touching off a series of battles that paved the way for the adoption of a new state constitution...