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Married. Jimmie Fidler, 74, old-time Hollywood gossip commentator who began tattling his rapid-fire tales about the stars on radio in 1933; and Kathryn Davis, 57, a former secretary for Flying Tiger airlines; he for the sixth time, she for the second; in Reno...
Skyjacking had never looked easier. Last week, a few hours after daybreak, Frank Markoe Sibley Jr., 43, of Stateline, Nev., pulled a ski mask over his face, slung an M-l rifle across the handlebars of his bicycle, and pedaled through a gap in the fence surrounding the Reno Municipal Airport-the same gap used by another hijacker three months ago. (Reno has applied for federal funds for a new fence, but has yet to receive them.) Ditching his bike, he slipped the rifle under his green field jacket, bulled his way into the line of passengers boarding a United...
Divorced. John Unitas, 39, veteran quarterback of the Baltimore Colts; and Dorothy Unitas; on grounds of incompatibility; after 18 years of marriage, five children; in Reno. Whereupon Unitas married Sandra Louise Lemon, 28, a Miami secretary...
...week, when four black men seized a Western Airlines jetliner, it was easy to believe the brief rumor that they were demanding custody of Angela Davis. The $500,000 ransom seemed almost a relief-as did a quiet and temporarily successful $200,000 holdup of a United jet in Reno. Today the most frequently-and falsely-coupled words are "senseless" and "violence." But violence is never senseless to the person who commits it. The absurdity occurs only to the victims and onlookers. Therein lies the deepest fear of modern times. War may be obscene; still, it obeys its own rules...
...alert security men to weapons. Such techniques are not totally effective; last week a skyjacker demanding $500,000 took over a Western Airlines plane en route from Los Angeles to Seattle. Another armed skyjacker, asking for $200,000 in cash, charged aboard a parked United Air Lines jet in Reno...