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...resulted in few indictments and even fewer attempts to curb organized crime. At length Bolles wearied of what he came to regard as windmill tilting and asked to be taken off the crime beat. But he could not stay away. When Adamson, a disreputable greyhound breeder and former tow truck operator, telephoned him three weeks ago with information purporting to link top Arizona Republicans to land fraud schemes, Bolles rushed off to meet him at a Phoenix hotel. While he waited, someone apparently placed the explosive charge in his car, parked in the hotel lot. Adamson failed to appear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: They Finally Got Me' | 6/28/1976 | See Source »

...drunken critic friend rails against hard-working Australians who will accept any old pay and have reduced him to writing for the Radio Times. A young woman (Jacqueline Pearce) with a manuscript in tow strips to the waist, brazenly daring Simon to ravish and, of course, publish her. Finally, his parched-for-love wife announces that she is pregnant, possibly by a man whom Simon despises. The subtlest alteration in Michael Gambon's marvelously controlled performance suggests that Parsifal will never sound the same again. No moat of detachment can guard the vulnerable castle of the heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Curtains Up in London | 4/19/1976 | See Source »

Captain Hovey Kemp and junior John Brock, the only tow returning lettermen, appear top contenders for starboard positions along with two members of last year's J.V., senior John Wright and--that's right--junior John White. Another strong starboard aspirant is sophomore Tom Howes...

Author: By Amy Sacks, | Title: Harvard Crew: Learning to Deal with Uncertainty | 3/26/1976 | See Source »

...depend. In addition, Israel is receiving "smart" bombs, which can be guided onto targets. Still on Jerusalem's shopping list are American RPVs (remotely piloted vehicles), which can counter the Arabs' Russian-built SAMs by drawing antiaircraft fire. To bolster its ground forces, Jerusalem is acquiring the TOW antitank missiles, the Cobra helicopter gunship and the most lethal version of the M-60 tank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMAMENTS: A Deadly Race That No One Can Win | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...Towing Service is used almost exclusively by the University police because the service is "the most reliable, honest, and dependable tow service in Cambridge," Francis said...

Author: By Anthony Y. Strike, | Title: Do You Know Where Your Car Is? | 3/11/1976 | See Source »

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