Word: case
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...North Carolina: The Strange Case of "Dr. Dunk...
...Routine purchases of large amounts of liquor for executives who would drop by his office and give him written lists of what they wanted by the case lot. Anderson contends that he often had to bring in laborers to deliver the whisky to the homes of executives or to put a case or two in the trunks of their cars in the company parking...
Surprisingly, there is little detail about what is surely the worst case of mass political murder in decades, the holocaust by the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia. But A.I. does lambaste the Vietnamese authorities for holding scores of thousands of prisoners in "re-education" camps. Hanoi says it holds only 50,000, but A.I. says that this figure...
Next morning Seoul's residents, still jittery over the assassination of President Park Chung Hee last October, learned that the sudden military maneuvering was not only an unexpected new twist to the Park case, but the opening of an ominous power struggle among top generals that could further jeopardize the country's uncertain political future. A terse announcement over government radio stated that Army Chief of Staff General Chung Seung Hwa, 53-effectively the country's senior officer in his capacity as martial law commander-had been arrested "in connection with the plot" against Park. Ten other...
...pretty as a picture, but in this case the picture was worth nowhere near a thousand words. Cast as a young German in The Formula, French Actress Dominique Sanda appeared for a first reading with George C. Scott, who stars as a Los Angeles detective involved with both her and a synthetic-oil conspiracy, whatever that is, while investigating a routine murder. Scott found Sanda's French accent so thick that he had difficulty understanding her. That would make for bad acting and a bad movie. Change the fraulein, as Hollywood often does, to a mademoiselle? Great Scott...