Word: murdock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hospice personnel are trained to ease the social and emotional problems related to dying, doing everything from advising on the drafting of wills to caring for neglected pets. Jayne Murdock, a Ross, Calif., schoolteacher, recalls how her dying mother at first refused to see her grandchildren after she was brought home from the hospital. But when the visiting hospice team began reducing her pain and reassuring her and her family in other ways, a new tranquillity set in. Finally, the woman even let the youngsters give her medication and assist her about the house. Says Murdock: "I felt when...
...Payments from the Airlie Foundation, a Virginia research organization and conference center. Investigators suspect that Flood received approximately $59,000 from the foundation and its director, Dr. Murdock Head, while Elko and former Louisiana Representative Otto Passman shared an additional $28,000. Between 1971 and 1977 Airlie got contracts worth more than $18 million from the State Department's Agency for International Development for educational films and other projects. Passman, Flood and Head deny any improprieties. Yet Elko's story is filled with specifics. TIME has learned that he claims Head asked him to invite Passman to dinner...
...Kelsey Murdock, assistant to the president at Brown, said yesterday only that Brown's lawyers are preparing the defense but that he felt it was "imprudent to comment on a case presently in the court...
More cities may soon feel the splat of the pie killers. For $50, Weiner is offering to any taker a "franchise kit" explaining the modus operandi. In Los Angeles, Pie Face International's Don Murdock is processing applications from potential hit men in Detroit, Chicago and New York, and has already taken on two operatives to service the capital area. "In Washington," he says, "the politicians are so removed from the people it takes a pie in the face to get them back to reality...
...over your face," explains Weiner, "it's hard to do anything. You can't see and you can't breathe. So you just stand there and grin." But women, in general, do not react well. "They just don't like it one bit," says Murdock. "They aren't good sports." On the other hand, reports a Minneapolis Pie Kill operative, a majority of the clients are "vindictive females...