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...very sympathetic person - "the type that would take in stray dogs and cats," a sheriffs lieutenant put it. That attribute may have been fatal: Janice was last seen wheeling her bicycle to the Lake Sammamish parking lot, accompanied by a young man with his arm in a sling. After her disappearance, at least four women recalled that they had been approached that day by an affable stranger who called himself Ted and wore a sling on his arm. Ted asked each woman to help him put his sailboat on top of his car; one woman walked with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Suppliant Stranger | 9/23/1974 | See Source »

From Cunctator's day until this century, the art of postponement had been virtually a monopoly of the military ("Hurry up and wait"), diplomacy and the law. In former times, a British proconsul faced with a native uprising could comfortably ruminate about the situation with Singapore Sling in hand. Blessedly, he had no nattering Telex to order in machine guns and fresh troops. A U.S. general as late as World War II could agree with his enemy counterpart to take a sporting day off, loot the villagers' chickens and wine and go back to battle a day later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Fine Art of Putting Things Off | 6/10/1974 | See Source »

...Fire teams" using crossbows, wrist-rocket sling shots, automatic weapons and homemade grenades would roam the streets of Miami attacking police, knocking out electric transformers, and firebombing stores. According to FBI Informer William Lemmer, those bizarre, bloody plans to disrupt the Republican National Convention last year were hatched by a group of Viet Nam Veterans Against the War. Lemmer says he attended a secret meeting in May 1972 in a Gainesville, Fla., attic, where plans for the disruption were discussed and the plotters demonstrated the use of crossbows, carbines and explosives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: The Gainesville Eight | 8/20/1973 | See Source »

...known as the Gainesville Eight, are charged with conspiring to stage raids on the Miami GOP convention and nearby police stations with sling shots, automatic weapons and fire bombs...

Author: By George Bittlingmayer, | Title: Vietnam Vets Go on Trial | 7/31/1973 | See Source »

...with his back to the wall, Mr. Nixon has once again seen fit to sling a mudball. This time it is aimed at a man who is barely cold in his grave, President Lyndon Johnson. In a memo from J. Fred Buzhardt, it was alleged that LBJ was the slimy creature who initiated the policy of presidential phone taps...

Author: By Paul T. Shoemaker, | Title: The Watergate Hearings: A Bird's Eye View | 7/24/1973 | See Source »

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