Word: dragnet
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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After escaping a police dragnet Friday, Gilday hid for more than 30 hours in a basement cellar. At 9 a.m. Sunday, he emerged in Haverhill, Mass. and forced his way into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Huberdeau while Huberdeau was out getting milk. Returning, Huberdeau found Gilday holding his wife at gun-point...
Police lost little time converging on Hampton Beach after the reported sighting of Gilday Thursday night. A police helicopter saw a man resembling his description run into the salt marshes and hovered over the area for several minutes spraying pepper gas on the area. Police set up a dragnet and skimmed through the swamp until dark. Gilday watched much of the bustle from a tree...
Gilday, who is 41 years old, stole two cars to avoid capture in a massive 800 man dragnet Friday. He was chased by an estimated 100 police cars and slightly wounded one of his pursuers. Saturday and Sunday police searched in vain for him in the northeastern corner of Massachusetts near the New Hampshire border...
...also doing some shuffling, but less than ever before. On the canceled list: / Dream of Jeannie, Daniel Boone, Dragnet '70, The Debbie Reynolds Show, Then Came Branson and My World and Welcome to It. In their place will go variety hours starring Black Comic Flip Wilson and Don Knotts (from the old Andy Griffith Show) plus Nancy, a sappy-sounding sitcom with Celeste Holm set in the White House. NBC has also taken on CBS Castoff Skelton, although for a half-hour at a time instead of an hour...
...This can't become a dragnet operation in which law-enforcement people are relying on us to do their police work," notes CBS News President Richard S. Salant. "People are going to duck when we come around because they'll think we are arms of government. Our sources will dry up. We have trouble now covering the activities of militants because they regard us as part of the government...