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...divorce case, after which Peel's promising political fortunes had slumped. Had Peel hired Holzapfel to wreak his revenge for the courtroom embarrassment? Were the Chillingworths murdered in the same fashion as the young bootlegger? With the evidence gradually falling into place, the police lured Holzapfel into a trap last October. In a Titusville motel room, two of his friends met the ex-convict, poured him several drinks and told him that Peel had hired one of them to kill him. Shaken and drunk, Holzapfel spilled out a gruesome story, which the "friends"-both undercover agents for the police...
...situations to exploit, although only 10% of his film footage ever proves usable. Most of it is too dull, and much too embarrassing to be shown. "We get a large number of suggestions." says he, "that reveal a kind of frightening sadism in people. School children ask us to trap their teachers in undignified or compromising situations. Little businessmen plead with us to capture the off-the-record attitudes of their large competitors. Ordinary citizens want us to catch policemen unawares...
Discarding one theory after another, the experts finally were forced to the conclusion that no chemical had been used to induce mummification; rather, by a "freak of chance," warm air from below the floor, flowing through cracks in the door and out a trap door at the top of the closet, had stopped the normal decay of flesh a few days after death. What was the cause of death? Looking close, Dr. Evans spotted traces of fabric embedded in grooves around the neck. It was the remnant of a length of woman's stocking...
FOREIGN POLICY. Bobby believes that the final TV foreign policy debate will be a trap for Nixon-and that G.O.P. Campaign Manager Len Hall has underestimated Jack Kennedy's grasp of foreign policy. "Jack was writing books on it before Nixon ever knew anything about it," he scoffs. "Jack had been to 30 foreign countries before Nixon had been to five...
...years ago. he began teaching at Hoover High, which then had a clutch of reluctant biology students. Cassell changed that: his love for wild animals attracted live students. Every weekend, he took his students into the desert and mountains to camp, trap and study. Entire classes soon went along at their own expense. Cassell's students began winning top rank at science fairs for inventing insecticides, studying cholesterol and other such matters...