Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...July 1977, however, Newton claimed that his run-in with Scott was actually the result of a "contract" to murder the man. The only reason that Scott was not dead, said Newton, was that "I couldn't go through with it." Although Newton's confession was considered suspect by many, it was enough to set the police digging further in the direction of Thorpe's chum, David Holmes, who had admitted to paying Norman Scott $7,000 in hush money before Britain's February 1974 general elections, allegedly "without the knowledge" of Thorpe...
Assertive and gregarious, Economist Kahn, a former Cornell University Professor, thrives on controversy. In an interview with TIME Washington Correspondent Jerry Hannifin, he argued that the airlines are excessively panicked by the prospect of being exposed to the full force of a competitive marketplace. "What I suspect is that there is a search for another security blanket now that the CAB security blanket is being removed," he says. Rather than harming the airlines, Kahn contends, deregulation will help many of them prosper. "We are making every carrier in this country a potential competitor of the other carriers by saying...
...Jersey office-furniture company has sold the GSA many million dollars worth of desks, filing cabinets and metal tables. Investigators suspect that Government equipment specifications were designed expressly for the manufacturer...
Child guidance is suggested here: some scenes may not be suitable for adults. But for those who suspect maturity is not worth the barbiturates, the new Pink Panther is first-class folderol...
Clouseau has the shrewdness of idiocy. He is driving his car. A gorgeous floozy jumps in at a stop light. She leers invitingly. He is dumbfounded. She leers some more. He begins to suspect that she has something not quite upright in mind. She smolders. He is within seconds of deciding that a lewd proposition is in the air. She opens her mouth and says, huskily, "It's green." Now he is flummoxed, filled with honest consternation- and intrigued. Can she mean . . . ? "The light," she explains sweetly...