Word: trump
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...floor of the Volkswagen; a police chief (Cliff Robertson) of a small town, pretty much stymied as he is pressed for a quick solution; friends and relatives of the victim, hysterical with grief, baffled over the brutality and arbitrariness of the killing. Then the film makers play their trump and pull themselves out of the hole...
...trump is called Franklin Wills, a clairvoyant who phones the police and volunteers his psychic resources to help solve the killing. He relates certain details of the crime only the police chief knew. The chief is suspicious, but he calls Wills in. Throughout the remainder of the investigation, he remains uncertain whether Wills is a madman, a visionary, an opportunist-or perhaps the murderer...
FREDERICK O. TRUMP...
...voice of reason," one student, who wished to remain anonymous, explained yesterday. "He was appreciative of the fact that students had stood off on the issue and not played their trump card...
Some Towers youths complain of harassment by police and security guards. One claimed that a security guard had cooperated with Cambridge police to trump up charges against a friend of his who the police "wanted...