Word: taverns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tavern Stops. In Italy alone, 26 carabinieri have been killed in the past 18 months; three were blown to bits two weeks ago when they investigated an abandoned and booby-trapped automobile near the Yugoslav border. In Milan last week bombs were set off at the offices of four U.S. companies in protest against "American imperialism." A group called the Red Brigade was suspected. Three Italians, dressed unaccountably in World War II German uniforms, were arrested in northern Italy carrying eleven pounds of explosives; they had stopped frequently at taverns along the road they were traveling and had managed...
...what you can learn," he said, "about this shooting in the--Tavern on Columbia Road. Apparently a kid from Roslindale was murdered when some guy came in off the street and opened fire in the bar last night. It sounds like a freak shooting. Interview the family. Do you know Harry? Harry'll take pictures. He's waiting for you. Here are the clips...
WITH THAT he put a batch of clippings from the Sunday dailies and the wire services on my desk. They told of a shooting which had occured late Saturday night in a crowded neighborhood tavern. The clippings said police knew of no motive. They named the dead man and identified him as a 21-year-old, unmarried, white male, who was also the third of seven children, a utility worker, and a former resident of the neighborhood. He had, according to the clips, come to the tavern with a friend and was sitting apparently peacefully at the bar when...
William Bremer Sr., 58, a truck driver who is blind in his right eye, says that "Artie may be 21 but he is still a boy." Hunched over a glass of Andeker beer in a dim South Side tavern last week, he grieved: "Oh, if only Artie'd shot me instead. I never pray, but last night I prayed and I prayed very hard." Bremer, a distraught, broken man who wore his silver-white hair in a ponytail until his wife cut it the day after the shooting, told TIME Correspondents William Friedman and Burton Pines that he also...
...bartenders themselves. A woman graduate who admitted she was once "the meanest barmaid in town" learned to be less provocative and more conciliatory. Recently she talked one patron out of shooting her husband and another out of wielding a knife in a fight at the pool table in her tavern...