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...released. Padilla told his Dallas jailers, "I'm not going anywhere with him. He's nuts." Trapnell agreed to let the 94 passengers debark at Kennedy Airport, ordered the pilot to take off, then forced him to return to Kennedy when the plane was over the eastern tip of Long Island. Once they were back on the ground, Trapnell ordered a fresh crew with, as he put it, "no heroes." Two of the new crew members, however, turned out to be FBI agents who shot Trapnell in the arm and hand and took him into custody. Authorities said...
...girl running with the kangaroos-and actually pulling their tails. Desert-wise oldtimers in the sun-parched Nullarbor, however, were not convinced. "Any bird go flitting around in the scrub here with nothing on," snorted one bushman, "would bloody soon burn off what's bobbing, I can tip you." Added Sheep Farmer Harvey Gurney: "The water holes are all dried up. She'd be burned to a crisp...
Ashley also discovered that Sheriff Mclntosh was dealing sternly with two people who resented this largely connubial personnel policy. Bernie Scale of Booneville, source of the original tip, had drawn 30 days in jail for drunkenness. Nedra Gabbard, twice divorced, unemployed and the mother of five, was arrested for driving up a hill too slowly. Both had applied for jobs that went to officials' relatives. Mclntosh dismissed the two as ne'er-do-wells unworthy of public employment. Of Mrs. Gabbard he added: "Besides, she doesn't even have...
...federal appropriation to create jobs was being spent. Nobody argued with the need for such funds, but a few local citizens thought that County Judge Elijah Campbell, Owsley's chief administrator, had a peculiar way of parceling out the jobs. Acting on a tip, Ashley found that Judge Campbell had appointed his wife as his executive secretary at $400 a month, and his niece as secretary to the county clerk at $300 a month. Sheriff Charley Mclntosh had taken on his wife as an assistant at $227 a month, and the county clerk had engaged his wife as county...
...their five goals at 2:39 in the second period. With a St. Lawrence defenseman all over him. Dave Hines started the play with a one-handed pass to Bill Corkery, who drew the goalie to one side before sliding the puck across the crease for Bobby McManama to tip...