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...Then I had to walk half a mile back to Spudnick's and get some help. Sheriff took me home, and Rick picked up my motorcycle. Last bike I had a wreck and somebody saw two sheriffs pack it in the trunk of their cruiser and drive away with it. I was in no position to demand it back at the time. It's kinda fucked up, but at least...
...Braniff International appears to be the biggest winner; its web of short routes across the Southwest will bring in a projected 3½% more revenue. National and TWA, both mostly long-haul carriers, will each lose about ½ of 1% in revenues. The nation's seven other domestic trunk lines will fall somewhere in between...
Murphy was forced to blindfold himself with strips of adhesive tape; then he was dumped into the trunk of a car and taken to a house about an hour's drive from his own. Meanwhile the kidnaper, who called himself a "colonel" of the A.R.A., telephoned word of the abduction to Constitution Managing Editor G. James Minter and to WAGA-TV. "We've got Reg Murphy, editor of the Constitution, "the caller told a TV newsman. "Don't bother to call the FBI. It won't help...
...name local people, besides Murphy, whom the "army" had considered kidnaping. The list included Atlanta's recently installed and amply girthed mayor, Maynard Jackson, and in a flash of mordant wit the kidnaper quipped: "We decided against the mayor because he wouldn't fit in the trunk...
...most celebrated families, the Hearsts of California, continued trying desperately to deal with an altogether different abduction: perhaps the first political kidnaping in U.S. history. Members of the revolutionary Symbionese Liberation Army, who dragged 19-year-old Patricia Hearst from her Berkeley apartment and flung her into the trunk of a getaway car, at first ordered her father Randolph to feed all the needy of California as a condition for her return. It was a demand that not even the Hearst millions could possibly meet...