Word: thursdays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...skeletons for the dailies to pick out of political closets, the bang-bang cops-and-robbers stuff is still given screaming banner-headline play. The Patricia Hearst affair and the "siege" of Washington's U.S. District Courthouse--where two convicts took eight people hostage in an escape attempt last Thursday--are just the sort of thing publishers like to have around for their front pages...
...their husbands to be set free from the basement of a Washington courthouse, and reporters have been filling up their dispatches with juicy quotes from the mother of Frank Gorham, one of the convicts. "All my men are gone and nobody seemed to care until this event on Thursday," The Times quoted Mrs. Gorham as saying. "Nobody cares whether I live or die, and I have got a daughter to school. I am human and I am innocent, but I am suffering the consequences...
...Hostages, which has its American premier tomorrow, recounts an episode that took place in Paris a few years ago, much like the one that began in Washington last Thursday. Though the movie's writers and director have not completely resisted the temptation to fictionalize some of the action, Molinaro's film is true enough to its source material that it has been taken off the French market until the original case goes through its final adjudication...
Estimates of the damage incurred from last Thursday's watermain break near Canaday Hall's construction site range from $15,000 to $25,000, Eugene Arcand Jr., business administrator of Buildings and Grounds' utility division, said yesterday...
Damages occurred when coupling broke Thursday night, causing flooding in the steam tunnels, Widener Library and the underpass near the Science Center...