Word: shell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mind the click of popping beer cans a chorus of crying babies and Ice cream vendors accompanying your favorite symphony, you might enjoy a trip this weekend to the outdoor Hatch Shell to hear "Papa "Arthur Fiedler and his Boston Pops serenade you under the stars...
Kiss of Death. The killer or killers acted with methodical precision, leaving the police with few clues beyond seven .22-cal. shell casings. A lightweight .22 is not the sort of artillery that the Mafia usually employs, leading to speculation that an embittered girl friend, of whom he had many, might have done him in. Or it might have been someone with whom he had been involved in the Castro caper who feared exposure. As for any possible CIA complicity, Director William Colby said: "We had nothing to do with...
...only contest that was especially exciting was in the freshman ranks. Ted Washburn's charges, thanks to some post-Sprints boat shuffling, finally came together. The shell set up with Peter Reynolds at stroke. Tom Howes at the seven seat, George Altken at six, and Roy Stevenson pulling the Pocock in the five position...
...multinational corporations are moving in, too. Oil-rich Cabinda, Angola's enclave north of the Congo River, is controlled by Cabinda Gulf Oil Company, which is rumored to be financing a separatist guerilla movement there. American Oil Company has just opened a field south of Luanda with cooperation from Shell. On the rooftop patio of a downtown Luanda hotel, I met an American tractor demonstrator and salesman from the Ford Motor Company whose job was to town-hop in the interior and set up Ford's market. He was very proud of Luanda's Ford dealership, Robert Hudson Ford...
...with the war. You heard helicopters circling the city all the time. Once last summer I went into a handicrafts center to buy gifts for friends in the States, and the people were selling beautiful carved copper vases made out of bullet coverings, the part that remains after the shell is fired. Life was so closely tied to the war that works of art were made from weapons...