Word: zodiac
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...endangered species fully protected everywhere else in the world, but the Icelanders are permitted to take a few hundred every year, most of which are shipped off to whale-eating Japan. Suddenly, as the whaler was about to zero in on its prey, a small, outboard-powered Zodiac inflatable materialized under the ship's towering...
...impulsive, Aries are likely to race across lawns and trample KEEP OFF THE GRASS signs. Geminis bark a lot. Libras sniff inquisitively under tables and into closets. Leos chase animals while Scorpios pester for second helpings. And if that doesn't sound like your sign of the zodiac, not to worry. Seer Jeane Dixon, famous and wealthy from casting people, has now gone to the dogs. "Dogs, after all," insists Dixon in her new book, Horoscopes for Dogs, "live under the same stars that we do." Take her Teddy, a mutt of indiscriminate breed. Dixon obviously doesn...
...terrorism in the San Francisco area in the past decade is undeniably remarkable.* In 1969 Charles Manson recruited his obsessed family from the flower children of Haight-Ashbury and led them to the slaughter of Actress Sharon Tate and seven others. Police still have not caught the self-proclaimed "Zodiac" killer who preyed on young lovers in the San Francisco area, claiming responsibility for 37 deaths between...
...some 5,000 or 6,000 years ago, probably in the steppes north of the Caucasus, the authors proceed upon a world tour of stud-farms on five continents. They repeat much delightful lore, including stories of Colonel William Hall Walker, who matched mares and stallions according to their zodiac signs and had a horoscope cast for every foal...
...hours ticked by with no leads, two chilling theories were formulated. Reporters wondered if the infamous Zodiac killer, who has claimed responsibility for 37 unsolved California murders and is still loose, might be involved. The other notion was that somebody had been inspired by a thriller written 18 years ago by Hugh Pentecost, The Day the Children Vanished. Pentecost's tale describes the disappearance of a station wagon full of pupils. In his story, kidnapers load the wagon onto a large truck and take the children to a remote barn. The abduction is a ruse to draw people away...