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| x OPER LHO UGHT og ow ee PEI we V.THE CHURCH ITS er aag cted to ‘ake call, and “refer it to. her number, where a friend was. ding by with instructions to take | ‘éall, refer the caller to yet ‘another | ‘nu ber—where I was waiting—and then” - Bet out of the house. In case'the call. 2 was, ‘traced to that number, the friend ; oe be absent if anyone came knock- in a . ‘fh “2 hit self as “Mr. Thomas” and said he :: h4 gow. x acting as an intermediary for Cooper. ° ih “tH ' said Cooper was interested in ex: noe li ining to the ‘American people the ~ . son, for, the skyjacking, but Cooper” 7 . "wasn't able to spend the $200,000, for the | ‘of the, bills, therefore; -he wanted to sell i story for $45,000, to be paid in three| fi med a Nnterv Ws , 000 ‘upon public ation” “of. Seth "Thomas Shows Up bes jext: week, the. intermediary:¢: ‘came to \irport a sehen ment counse hase sand he ‘with: “aa sand he ‘ h “felt ‘guilty even when stealing “cookies _from a jar when he was a child. . A He had been married to the same _.woman for 25 years, had never cheated Jon her once, ‘belonged to the country_ “club, the PTA and had been so faithful | “an upward-aspiring engineer at Boeing | 0 hi he carried two cheese sandwiches = “Feathers His Neck "Ttem: “You ‘don't laugh at motherhood.’ "You don't laugh at tradition, at religion, g Sat everything possible that a man could “hold dear," } he said. ~ Item: “when you re at “the football . ‘game and somebody gets up and sings _the ‘Star-Spangled Banner, it still makes ‘the feathers come up on my. neck when _ Thear it.” . dows meee { Item: “When I had. my. “first: ‘sexual ex" " perience ‘with a ‘girl, I was 17 years old. : *This was ‘an older woman. I was 56 dumb. ° se Ay was ‘drinking beer with her. I was away . from” home and it was Christmas Eve.” We went, to her. ‘apartment. “She asked © me if I wanted to play cards.So said * a ‘$0 we’ "re. “playing, strip poker. F Ss the: A ‘athroom ‘and when ‘I came_back, he, ‘was in bed. So I said ‘Well, I jackie Til be going, Irene.”And she, said “Oh, scold i in, here. If you'd just come over, gd “cand warm me up a bit.? Well, Pr ma pretty’; Uap Pabbacde Po tsece cea he tbe ce ed The ‘first “shock passed,’ realized that his ‘situation— ‘though . he ithe secretary said, but she - thet RE bie is a “phase out everybody i in their40s because 7 ‘it would be cheaper, : and better. econo- If you can ‘suck the last drop. of gray. aS matter from the ones you're going” to a dump and put it into the brains of the ‘younger ones,, ‘then see how much more money you're ahead!” ::. Pury ond ‘Cooper: had a $300 a month mortgage on a ‘subu . ban home, two cars, a boat, a camper and -two children to support~ wasn't too bad. After all, this executive at “Northwest, tL upon ‘whom ‘oceasionally Cooper ‘paid ; “offer that any time Y wanted Pr change _companies...it would, be great to have .me on the Northwest team.” The ‘North: “west man had been buttering im. up, “courting him even.’ ug ., 80 Cooper telephoned him. The secr ary ‘said he was on another line. and would call back. When he. ‘didn’t, Cooper : phoned again. He was not in the. office hay “him call. He didn't. Cooper. again. ‘He was in conference, th tary’ “said. Finally, anothe’ b his’ ‘old, pal; vat t Northwest, his ‘oc asional ie egan ’ «I BpInE ~ nto f thinking ‘of ‘what he Rvould’ rest c ‘of his life, ‘His pride, had coi Peay min who vets in and goes to wor “uty arte AA a cate RARE Cale 8 oe