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Massachusetts House Speaker David Bartley (D-Holyoke) has appointed a six-man commission to make another stab at one of the state's favorite sports: trying to get Harvard Stadium opened for use by the Boston Patriots football team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New 6-Man Commission to Consider Loan of Harvard Stadium to Pats | 11/6/1969 | See Source »

...SITTING ROOM. This is Director Richard Lester's second surrealistic attack on the homicidal excesses of the military; it makes his first aggressive stab against war (How I Won the War) look like a warm-up exercise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oct. 31, 1969 | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

Voted Down. Critics of the bill made three significant attempts to cut back appropriations. There was a stab at denying the Pentagon $533 million to buy more C-5A air transports, a plane that so far has proved uneconomical. Questioning the need for 15 attack aircraft carriers, the critics tried to clip $377.1 million appropriated for construction of a second nuclear carrier. Finally, they tried to cut $80 million from funds allocated for construction of an advanced strategic aircraft. All the efforts were voted down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: Until Next Time | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

...main witnesses have recently been convicted of crimes; in exchange for their testimony, Mosley has promised to recommend lighter sentences for them. Will the jury believe men with their records? One is a Mafia gunman who testifies that, from a hidden place, he saw Franzese's pals stab The Hawk several times in a parking lot. Remarking on the witness's matter-of-fact account, the defense asks the jury: "Did you ever in your life see a more cold, calculated killer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: The Prosecutor as Underdog | 9/5/1969 | See Source »

Pattern. Karen's murder followed what is by now a pattern: the victim, usually walking alone, accepts a ride and disappears. Her body is found several days later. All the girls were brunette Caucasians, and all were murdered in rainy weather. Six of the seven were either strangled, stabbed in the neck or left with something twisted around their necks. The exact official causes of death: two by gunshot, two by strangulation, two by stab wounds and one by skull fracture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: The Rainy Day Murders | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

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