Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There are two sides here," Mrs. Kopechne continued. "Mr. Kopechne and I on this side and the Kennedy name on the other. Everybody is on that side." Mary Jo's parents accept Kennedy's explanation of his delay in reporting the accident. "I can understand shock," Mrs. Kopechne said. "But I cannot understand Mr. Gargan and Mr. Markham. They weren't in shock. Why didn't they get help? That's where my questions start." The couple is curious as to how Kennedy could return unnoticed to the cottage after the accident. Assuming that Kennedy...
Second Slaughter. Los Angeles was still reeling from shock at the gruesome Tate murders when a second multiple murder occurred last week, only nine miles away and 24 hours later. Leno LaBianca, 44, the owner of four markets, and his wife Rosemary, 38, were slashed to death in their secluded home in the Los Feliz area. "It's a carbon copy," reported a policeman upon first viewing the scene, and fears of a maniac running amok quickly spread through the city. Indeed, there were chilling similarities between the two slaughters: the words ''death to pigs" smeared...
...road, traverse ice, sand, mud and rocks at 15 m.p.h., and make better than three knots in water. Their fiber-glass bodies can absorb excruciating punishment, and their oversize (11-in. by 20-in.) tires, inflated to only 2 Ibs. per sq. in. of pressure, can withstand virtually any shock...
...Trade rumor has it that Mayor Daley's office is displeased with the film. It is known that one member of the board of Gulf and Western, the conglomerate that owns Paramount, threatened to resign if the film were ever released. Jack Valenti and his Motion Picture Association shock troops registered considerable displeasure over some of the obscenities in the dialogue. "I wrote them and said I'd be glad to fix it up," Wexler reports. "Only I said every time someone said a 'dirty' word I would substitute the word kill. That...
CURRENCY devaluations by major countries were once regarded as cataclysmic events likely to cause global shock waves that would disrupt trade, employment and international investment. Last week, when world money markets reopened after France's surprise 12½% devaluation of the franc, the repercussions proved to be notable for their mildness...