Word: alibis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indeed, Lippincott has apparently seized this purpose as an alibi in the continuing controversy over the legitimacy of Rorvik's story. A publisher's note falls short of backing up the author and concludes that the book "will stimulate interest and debate on issues of the utmost significance for our immediate future." And Rorvik added an afterword, saying that he hoped that people "benefit by this preview of an astonishing development whose time, at least in terms of some of the emotional and ethical issues it raises, has apparently not quite yet come." It is conceivable that Rorvik contrived...
With her hip-hugger jeans and Indian jewelry, Priscilla has never been a favorite of Forth Worth society-one executive described her as "a lady who looked like she had spent too much time in bowling alleys"-and Haynes has concentrated less on an alibi for Davis than on his wife's reputation. Last week he put on the stand William Rufner, a convicted felon and former lover of Priscilla's, hoping to depict him as a possible suspect. Priscilla stands to gain millions by her husband's conviction, Haynes argued, while Gavrel, the other key witness...
...allegations arose last Thursday when a drunken man presented himself to the Somerville police as the mayor's lover. The man later admitted there was no basis to his charge, and Ralph proved his alibi with a polygraph test...
...still below the poverty line, defined as $5,500 for an urban family of four (only 8.9% of white families are below the line). Says Harvard Sociologist David Riesman: "The awareness that many blacks have been successful means that the underclass is more resentful and more defiant because its alibi isn't there...
After re-examining the key witnesses, the convicts1 lawyers produced a white minister from New Jersey who swore that Chavis had an alibi. The Rev. Eugene Templeton, a former pastor in Wilmington, and his wife Donna both testified that they were elsewhere with Chavis at the time he was allegedly fire-bombing the grocery. The couple left the area a short time later and did not testify at the original trial because, they claimed, they feared arrest or injury...