Word: trunkful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Meanwhile, new charges piled up against him. In June he was indicted by a grand jury in Atlanta for the murder of two competitors in the porn business. The indictment gave this account of the killings: Thevis shot Kenneth Hanna in November 1970 and then stuffed him in the trunk of his own Cadillac. But Thevis bungled the job by locking up the car keys with the corpse. He asked a business associate, Roger Underbill, to help him recover the keys. Then Thevis drove the car to the Atlanta airport, where the body was later discovered by police. The second...
...trunk caller was not quite what Donner wanted, and he and Salkind asked for a meeting with Brando in Los Angeles. When they arrived, the green suitcase had been forgotten. "Maybe the people on Krypton should look like bagels," said Brando. Salkind, who is edgy at the best of times, suppressed his hysteria as he envisioned his project, his reputation and his bankbook being swallowed by some great blobbish bagel. "I was almost banging the knee of Dick, begging him to say something," he recalls. Finally Donner interjected that all the kids, including Brando's own, who had read...
...centuries, the sardonic name of Humble Administrator's Garden; the grounds were constructed over 16 years by a corrupt official who was anything but hum ble. After his death it was gambled away by his son hi one night. A mountain on the Li River is called Elephant Trunk Hill be cause, with only a slight squint of the imagination, it looks like a mighty pachyderm slurping from the stream. An adorn ment of Peking's Summer Palace is called the Jade Belt Bridge; it might well girdle a goddess...
...every revenue dollar on labor costs, vs. an average 520 for other U.S. railroads. Clamoring Congressmen have blocked Conrail from eliminating service on a number of money-losing short lines that helped drive the six railroads into bankruptcy in the first place. Even Conrail's best trunk lines are short one-way hauls, with the cars returning to the terminal as empties. Explains William Druhan, a senior staffer for the House Transportation Subcommittee: "Union Pacific carries something 2,000 miles and gives it to Conrail, which carries it 200 miles and unloads...
...them in a U.S. Justice Department office in Rome, where he had once served as ambassador. Last December he flew back to Rome to retrieve the documents. After returning to Washington, he drove home with them to Winston-Salem and simply had not got around to unloading the trunk. His intention, he said, was to give the papers to the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library in Austin, Texas, after he had finished annotating them...