Word: serials
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...noticeable chill in the area. All along the California coast, doors and windows were bolted shut. Hardware stores experienced a run on security items, and weapons dealers reported a booming business. The pervasive fear had been aroused by the latest foray of the so-called Night Stalker, the serial killer who entered houses stealthily and seemingly at random, attacking and sometimes killing the occupants. Anxiety subsided Saturday when police at last arrested a suspect...
Ramirez, 25, resembles victims' descriptions of the Night Stalker. Like the attacker, he is tall and thin, with black hair and bulging eyes. Most significant, he has badly decayed teeth. Victims had said the serial killer's teeth are markedly yellowed and gapped; police identification artists had even composed a separate sketch of his mouth...
...hero of the '30s and '40s and who himself went on to become a worthy, if merely life-size, embodiment of his plucky namesake, serving as a much decorated U.S. Air Force officer and helping to oversee the development of atomic-powered satellites; in Laguna Niguel, Calif. The radio serial, which was largely sponsored by Wheaties, got the name for the fictional stalwart of Hudson High from a General Mills executive who had been a college fraternity brother of Armstrong...
...Minh City's doors to Western newsmen, the government tried to shut away many of these children in a nearby detention center. Last week one boy, barely in his teens, who had escaped the roundup, began holding onto an American journalist, writing down what looked like a G.I. serial number and repeating, over and over, "Papa." Within minutes, a policeman seized the boy and dragged him away in handcuffs. By then, however, the plaintiveness of his appeal, like the toughness of his country, had left its mark...
...conservative estimate of the audience for Douglas Adams' 1979 luna tic masterpiece, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a 1980 sequel, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, and a 1982 sequel, Life, the Universe and Everything. The Hitchhiker's Trilogy, which began as a radio serial, has grown to embrace a television series, record albums, several theatrical productions and a computer software game. As a result of all that furious merchandising, Adams, 32, a 6-ft. 5-in., former television script editor (Dr. Who), has become a cult figure at colleges throughout the galaxy. So Long...