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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...duty hours helping. But while top officers professed optimism, some lower-ranking detectives saw the huge manpower effort as window dressing. They consider the chances of seizing Son of Sam as minimal, unless, however subconsciously, he wants to be caught, is overtaken before he can flee a shooting site or some citizen provides a revealing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Man Hunt For Son of Sam Goes On | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

Other witnesses claim they saw a gunman jump into a mustard-colored small car and speed away after the seventh assault. A yellow Volkswagen was seen near the site of last week's attack No. 8. Yet more than 25,000 yellow Volkswagens are registered in New York State, and police have little confidence that state computers can narrow the number of owners who also roughly fit the killer's age range and physical description. The job of tracing ownership of the 28,000 Bulldog revolvers made by Charter Arms Corp. of Stratford, Conn., over the past five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Man Hunt For Son of Sam Goes On | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

...Hawaiian bases. Vice Admiral Samuel Gravely Jr., commander of the Third Pacific Fleet, pointedly notes: "The military in Hawaii is a billion-dollar-a-year business. A significant part of that business is generated because Navy and Marine forces are here to train, and Kahoolawe is a prime training site...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: Return of the Natives to Kahoolawe | 8/8/1977 | See Source »

...monthly record swap held in the parking lot at the Capitol Records Tower in Hollywood, an original Beatles 45 r.p.m. single can get you $100 or more. Later this month Chicago's Palmer House hotel will be the site of "Come Together-Beatle Fest '77," a convention to which hordes of Beatles fans will swarm to discuss the meaning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: I Wanna Hold Your Hand-Again' | 8/8/1977 | See Source »

...Coover allows no distinction between his fiction and the living man; much of the humor depends on a knowledge of the real Nixon's career. As the fictional Nixon's humiliations increase (he is made to appear seminude in front of the throngs at the execution site), what could have been an act of imagination sours into something rather less attractive than vampirism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Uncle Sam Takes On the Phantom | 8/8/1977 | See Source »

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