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...Janice Ott, 23, who worked for King County Juvenile Court in nearby Seattle and was known as a very sympathetic person - "the type that would take in stray dogs and cats," a sheriffs lieutenant put it. That attribute may have been fatal: Janice was last seen wheeling her bicycle to the Lake Sammamish parking lot, accompanied by a young man with his arm in a sling. After her disappearance, at least four women recalled that they had been approached that day by an affable stranger who called himself Ted and wore a sling on his arm. Ted asked each woman...
...outdone in the war of statistics, the NSC has countered with more of its own. Said one spokesman in rejoinder: "Travel on 31 representative turnpikes during the first five months of this year was down 14% from the first five months of 1973, but fatalities were down 60%." The lowered speed limit seemed a likely explanation. What is more, said the NSC, there were 3.4 deaths per 100 million miles driven for the first six months of 1974, down from an average 4.27 for all of 1973. As for the A.M.A. contention that most crashes occur at speeds under...
...Maddox a second term as Governor, a post he held from 1967 to 1971. Prohibited by state law from succeeding himself, Maddox has been biding his time as Lieutenant Governor while waging the campaign he calls his "last hurrah." Last week that effort suffered a setback that may be fatal; Maddox failed to win enough votes to avoid a runoff in the Democratic primary...
...Nixon had done anything to warrant removal from office. Neither Zamyatin nor Zorin ever mentioned the Watergate breakin, the coverup, the indictments of so many Nixon aides, the Nixon income tax imbroglio, the incriminating tapes, the articles of impeachment, or the falsehoods that the former President admitted in his fatal Aug. 5 statement...
...encased, like scarab beetles, in glittering carapaces of emerald and embroidery. Such pictures were hailed as setting the tone of an entire sensibility-the same cast of imagination that in literature ran from Flaubert's Salammbô to Swinburne and Wilde, heavy with allusions to enigmatic and castrating Fatal Women. Moreau's own work was rich in homosexual overtones, though in fact he kept up a continuous liaison with a woman named Adelaide-Alexandrine Dureux for 25 years...