Word: stunts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much they didn't, and a Los Angeles grand jury last week decided they thought Gladys a bit much. She was indicted for inducing her client, convicted Kidnaper John William Irwin, to testify falsely in an effort to prove that Sinatra phonied up the kidnaping as a publicity stunt. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 15 years, $20,000 fine...
...operate into Melbourne because he was competing with government-owned railroads, and Ansett defiantly went airborne; no one seemed to care about the air. He bought a Fokker Universal, grandly painted "Ansett Airways" on its side, and began flying between Melbourne and Hamilton. He also took passengers along on stunt flights at $3.50 an hour...
Trapped by the last bizarre stunt in his succession of bragging phone calls and letters to the police and press, Le´ger sat chatting with detectives at police headquarters as a squad from the Suûr-eteÚ's First Mobile Brigade searched his apartment; in it they found the lined rose-tinted pad on which all 58 of the strangler's messages had been written. After 24 hours of grilling, LeÚger burst into tears and admitted: "Oui, je suis bien I'assassin du petit Luc." He was drawn to the little...
...although many CBS and ABC shows are independently produced. That left NBC and Emmy going steady by default, at least until May 25. The network rose gallantly to the occasion, tongue-lashing the girl's deserters-a "classic of sham and hypocrisy" and "an effective publicity stunt." Curiosity about what they would do about the flock of absentee award winners may well give the show its highest Nielsen rating...
...caused by two Siberian tigers being shipped to a St. Paul zoo, also insured members of a private New Orleans club against excessive bodily harm caused by the Mardi Gras festivities. Luck and nerve as well as experience are important, but Continental generally shuns such risks as traveling carnivals, stunt pilots and amateur parachutists. "We don't make snap decisions," says McKerrow. "We sit here for hours and discuss how to fix a rate, how to determine the hazards, and what our competitors might do in the same situation." The surge in high-risk insurance stems from many factors...