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019 (Rev. 7-17-68) SSE AEN UT eM mt Terror Tale HO It's Movieland Hotel By ANTHONY BURTON Staff Correspondent of Tar News Los Angeles, Aug. 11—Fantasy ruled not so long on the land where the gigantic $500 million complex of buildings called Century City now stands. Here, fake cowboys strutted along false-fronted western streets and phony explorers struggled through bogus ? African jungles. ' thousands of men and women spent their days spinning fairy tales for the world’s screens. Now the miniature city of the future is here, dominated by the ultra-modern hotel, the Cen- tury Plaza. Today, Secret Service men and high police officials met in the hotel to consider a situation so extraordinary that derisive eyebrows might have been raised if it had been offered at a ' story conference in the old days. | A Fete for Astros It was not enough that in two days a state dinner wou'd : be held in the banquet room of the hotel for the three moon * astronauts. It was not enough that President Nixon would be ‘arriving from the summer White House down the coast at San Clemente. It was not enough that antiwar protest groups were planning a showdown with police outside the hotel On top of all these security problems, local law enforce- ment officials were struggling with bizarre mass killings, an effort that was using their resources to the utmost. ‘As the hunt went into its third day, police also had to deal with repeated demands from residents in isolated areas for additional police patrols, Looks Through Binoculars Nobody was using the word pante, but it was not far away early this morning as neighbors gathered in the sulty dark- ness outside 3301 Waverly Dr. in the Los Feliz section of the city. From the roadway,.they could just make out smears of | blood on the walls of the living room. One youngster had a } Pair of binoculars to bring the scene into closer focus. ‘The bodies of Leno and Rosemarie La Bianca were still inside and detectives were starting work on the inevitable question: was there a link between this and the killing of actress Sharon Tate and four others Friday night? Was » mad killer at large, able to strike again and again? As High Cop Sees It One woman pulled her robe closer around her, hugging. herself as if chilled, although the night was warm, “I don’t know what to do” she said. “I can’t sleep knowing whoever E did this is stil free. How can anyone go to sleep? I'll have E to stand here all night. I feel better seeing that policeman at the gate.” did not think there was any connection between the two cases. If it was meant as a reassurance for the neighbors it was not helpful. ‘All it meant was that there was a surfeit of madness, enough for two separate horrors. The enemy was Within the gat2s and nobody was safe. | “*'idter a eray-haired police inspector came out and said he ome ese ENCLOSURE ( Then it was the back lot of 20th Century-Fox studios and. 24m MAEM LRNRNARE RRMA TEPER RRNA Tolson LeLoach Mohr Bishop Casper Callahan Conrad Felt Gale Rosen Sullivan Tavel Trotter Tele. Room Holmes Gandy The Washington Post Times Herald The Washington Daily News The Evening Star (Washington? The Sunday Star (Washington) Daily News (New York) Sunday News (New York) New York Post ‘The New York Times The Sun (Baltimore) The Daily World —______ The New Leader The Wall Street Journal ___ The National Observer People’s World Examiner (Washington) Date wa 3 a AUG 12 o/