Word: cornfield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Melvin Purvis cornered Bank Robber Charles ("Pretty Boy") Floyd in a farmhouse near East Liverpool, Ohio. When Floyd, armed with two .45-cal. pistols, fled across a stubbled cornfield toward the woods, Purvis and his men shot him to death. It was one of the most celebrated exploits of the G-men, forerunners of the present-day FBI agents, and enhanced Purvis' reputation as one of the country's ablest crime fighters. The story of Floyd's death stood unchallenged for almost 45 years...
DIED. Homer Capehart, 82, three-term Republican Senator from Indiana (1945-63); from complications following a hip fracture; in Indianapolis. The son of a tenant farmer, Capehart made a fortune selling jukebox equipment and got into politics after organizing a 1938 "cornfield convention" of 20,000 Republicans. As Senator, he supported farm subsidies and helped establish the Small Business Administration. An enthusiastic McCarthyite, Capehart staked his 1962 senatorial campaign on a tough anti-Cuba stand ("invade or blockade") and lost narrowly to young Birch Bayh when President Kennedy's embargo of Cuba took away his thunder...
...affairs, like farmwork. Not only did the Vallets let me drive the tractor on the road--reckless in itself--but they generally acted rather casually about farm safety. One day, for instance, we needed to refill the gas tank of a steaming-hot diesel engine. We were irrigating a cornfield and the engine had been continuously pumping for several hours. The engine was incredibly hot, so hot that I expected it to explode at any moment. Several hundred people had just recently been killed in a liquid propane truck explosion in Spain, and I vividly recalled the newspaper photos...
...weeks later, a helicopter flew in low over a cornfield near Oxford and landed on the courthouse mall. A squad shotgun-toting U.S. marshals and state troopers hustled Bruce Johnston Jr. to the courthouse, where he testified at a preliminary hearing against his father and Leslie Dale. Afterward, the federal marshals took Little Bruce to a secret hideaway for safekeeping...
More than two months after the theft of Charles Chaplin's remains from a grave in the Swiss village of Corsier-sur-Vevey, police last week recovered the body in a cornfield near Lake Geneva. The kidnapers, it turns out, were a Polish car mechanic and his Bulgarian accomplice. The motive? Money. The pair have been telephoning Chaplin's widow, Oona, for several weeks, demanding at first $600,000 in ransom. Police tapped the calls through it all, and finally closed in on one of the robbers in a Lausanne phone booth. The idea for the grisly theft...