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...children from the small California farming community of Chowchilla had disappeared. The youngsters and their driver had been kidnaped by three masked men brandishing pistols. The victims were driven to a gravel quarry 100 miles away and forced into an abandoned trailer truck buried 6 ft. underground. Sixteen hours later the captives managed to dig themselves out and were soon rescued. The FBI quickly interrogated them but found no answer to the question: Who were the abductors...
...captives were driven 100 miles from Chowchilla to a quarry in Livermore, Calif. There three kidnapers wearing stocking masks forced their victims down a small tunnel into a buried 25-ft.-long moving van. Sixteen hours later the prisoners dug themselves out. The elder Woods-who was cooperating fully with investigators-owns the California Rock & Gravel Co., site of the quarry where the mass abduction ended. On his estate, 29 miles distant, police found a virtual junkyard-100 vehicles, including several wrecked police cars, a fire engine, assorted trucks and vans, and a tractor that could have been used...
...hole with two steel plates. The air quickly grew fetid and hot, and suffocation became a real possibility. "There was a lot of crying and calling for Mama," Ray recalled afterward. Desperate, Ray and the seven boys piled up mattresses and, with great effort, pushed away the steel plates. Sixteen hours after first entering the pit, they squeezed out. Two hundred yards away they found the watchman, who alerted the police...
...prosperous Boston tailor, who bought the thin little waif with the idea that she should be trained to attend his wife Susannah. In a testimonial letter to the publisher, Wheatley writes: "Without any assistance from school education, and by only what she was taught in the family, she, in sixteen months time from her arrival, attained the English language . . . to such a degree, as to read any, the most difficult parts of the sacred writings, to the great astonishment of all who heard...
Reagan, helped by the ballots of frustrated former voters for George Wallace, moved ahead of President Ford last week in firm delegates to the convention, 365 to 294. Sixteen tough primaries lay ahead, including nine in Southern and Western states where Reagan would normally be strong. Ford, though still a shaky favorite to win the nomination in the end, could not even be sure of carrying his home state of Michigan...