Word: rocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Portland, Ore. With Carroll's pretty young wife Anita in their party, they had started their trip across the desert without taking the routine precaution of telling the local gendarmery. Armed with a shotgun and a revolver, the ambushed Americans fought off the bandits, seeking shelter behind a rock when their tires were punctured by shots and holding out until their ammo was exhausted. The fight was useless. One morning last week the gendarmes found the bullet-ridden bodies of Wilson, Carroll and their two Iranian companions lying on the scene of the skirmish. Of Anita Carroll the only...
...Newhouse's staid Oregonian -a comfortable, conservative newspaper that is normally inclined to sit back and rock on Portland's front porch-it was a tough and hazardous story. Judged by his police record, Racket Boss Elkins was, at best, an impeachable source. The villains in Elkins' story were not men to meddle with lightly-a Teamster organizer and ex-convict, as well as Multnomah County District Attorney William Langley and Sheriff (now Mayor) Terry Schrunk, both Teamster protégés. After listening to 70 hours of conversations between the key figures, tape-recorded...
...Giants. Texas Instruments got into electronics by an unusual route. Originally called Geophysical Service Inc., it started out after World War I as an oil-exploration service, pioneered methods for locating oil-bearing rock formations by shooting sound waves into the earth. The idea was so successful that in the late 1930s Geophysical Service earned a reputation as the world's leading independent oil-exploration service, helping bigger companies find oil pools from Canada to Arabia...
Giant. A big (3 hr. 18 min.), tough picture based on Edna Ferber's bestseller about Texas, directed by George Stevens; with Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean (TIME...
Giant. A big (3 hr. 18 min.), tough picture based on Edna Ferber's bestseller about Texas, directed by George Stevens; with Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean (TIME...