Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Life continued to imitate a detective story in the ongoing Howard Hughes mystery last week. No fewer than nine private investigators moved into rooms directly beneath the Hughes suite on the ninth floor of Nassau's Britannia Beach Hotel, their suitcases crammed with bugging devices, amplifiers and detailed maps...
From Saigon word came that General Creighton Abrams Jr., 56, commander of U.S. forces in South Viet Nam who previously indicated no religious preference, has joined the Roman Catholic Church. Meanwhile, back at the Pentagon, Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird dedicated a small room in the Aring as a...
Nothing fails like success. Example: The Weekender, a shoestring weekly in Traverse City, Mich., that was mildly successful at reporting offbeat stories and doing a bit of gentle muckraking until last Aug. 11 at 6:30 a.m.
That was the hour when a General Motors tool repairman named Francis Cronk accepted a collect call from the Traverse City state hospital for mental patients. His mentally retarded son, John David Cronk, 26, had died. The hospital autopsy claimed ''acute pulmonary congestion." Dismayed, the Cronks ordered another...
Blacklist. By no means a madhouse on a haunted hill, the hospital is run conscientiously by Dr. Duane Sommerness, who since becoming medical superintendent of the institution in 1956, has made notable improvements. When he took over, there were seven doctors for 3,000 patients; now the ratio is 30...