Word: murdering
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...dazed by the footlights. He resorts to chalk and blackboard to work out his plots. Says he: "My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up & down." (The Cocktail Party is his first play to be produced on a large commercial scale. His only other full-length play, apart from Murder in the Cathedral: The Family Reunion, the story of a modern Orestes haunted by the Furies...
...Army occupation police said that they found no specific evidence of "foul play." On the other hand, U.S. Intelligence officers thought that it was murder. By coincidence, the Arlberg-Orient had made an unscheduled half-hour stop, to permit traffic to clear, at the village of Goiling, just three minutes from Lueg tunnel. Passengers had opened doors and stepped down to stroll and smoke on both sides of the train...
Intuition. Austrians sensed something more than an accident in Karpe's death. "POLITICAL MURDER IN LUEG TUNNEL," cried a Salzburger Nachrichten headline. Golling's Dr. Wilhelm Gugl noticed almost no blood on the spot where Karpe was supposedly dashed to death. Had the American been killed before his body fell into the tunnel? His remains were so mangled that an autopsy was useless...
...Karpe's death could be an integral part of the cold war-the logical extension of Bob Vogeler's trial. An international train passing through the wild mountain country of U.S.-occupied Austria could be the perfect place to murder a diplomat who had probed too deeply behind the Iron Curtain. Karpe's rank was high enough to leave the impression they want: maybe they can't arrest and try foreign attaches, but they can take care of them just the same, the way they took care of Karpe...
...Shadow of Tragedy." "Barbarian neighbor!" barked the Indian press, charging Pakistan with a plot of annihilation against Hindus. Angry Pakistan headlines bayed: "Over 10,000 [Moslems] killed-harrowing tales of murder, arson and loot...