Word: strangers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unmarried woman of 30 met a stranger on a bus, invited him home for a meal. Whereupon he broke her arm and raped her. After granting $3,337 compensation, the board slashed it to $2,668 on the ground that the victim was 20% responsible. >A man of 29 was shot by the husband of the woman with whom he was living. The husband went to prison, and the wounded lover got $1,512. >A boy of eight was blinded with a stick by another boy of eight, who could not be charged because ten is the age of criminal...
...Cardinals to the National League pennant in 1964, was at a loss for explanations-at least he offered none. Everybody else had a theory, and some of them started with Keane him self. New York sportswriters grumbled that Keane, in his second year with the Yanks, was still a stranger to the team. Rumors flew that before the season was much older Keane would be replaced by General Manager Houk, who had won three pennants in a row before moving up front...
...woman seated alone on a bus at a rest stop somewhere between Nice and Grasse, drags her into a small park and stabs her. The victim is his wife, and Frobe has such an airtight alibi that the murder case would be swiftly closed except for a rich young stranger (Maurice Ronet), who is interested in uxoricide for its instructional value. Caught between a neurotic wife who won't give him a pleasant word or a divorce and a delectable mistress (Marina Vlady) who will give him just about anything, Ronet begins to hang around Probe's bookshop...
...handle his case for no fee. On first meeting his scrawny client, Farrug felt immediate compassion: "He looked so small and helpless. There was the enormity of the prison, the towering guards, the prison clothes a little too big for him." Danny himself could hardly believe the earnest stranger's promise that "you have the whole American tradition of law and justice behind you." From his side of the bars, he could only smile skeptically at one of Farrug's letters: "It's a pretty great thing to live in a society where people will work...
...Stranger yet to Palomares fishermen were the Jules Verne trawling capsules imported by the Navy's 18-ship, 2,200-man recovery task force under "Wild Bill" Guest, 52. Among the most sophisticated hardware in his far-out fleet were the civilian-manned, deep-diving research subs Aluminaut and Alvin. It was Alvin's two crewmen who first found the wayward nuke last month, wrapped in its grey parachute 2,500 ft. down on a 70° slope. But Alvin proved a ham-handed retriever. On its first try at getting a line around the bomb...