Word: alleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After an elderly woman was mugged in an alley in San Pedro, Calif., a witness saw a blonde girl with a ponytail run from the alley and jump into a yellow car driven by a bearded Negro. Eventually tried for the crime, Janet and Malcolm Collins were faced with the circumstantial evidence that she was white, blonde and wore a ponytail while her Negro husband owned a yellow car and wore a beard. The prosecution, impressed by the unusual nature and number of matching details, sought to persuade the jury by invoking a law rarely used in a courtroom...
...stood by without hindering looters. In New York City, lone patrolmen sometimes were ordered to ignore the plundering and avert traffic backups that could make riot scenes more perilous. In Pittsburgh, one eager bargain seeker stocked up a shopping cart at a looted supermarket, rolled it out into an alley, bumped into a cop and asked blandly: "Is this the way to the checkout counter...
...Oyler popped up, but Detroit's right-handed pitching ace Earl Wilson slashed a line drive into the right-center field alley to produce a run. Culp then walked Dick McAuliffe (one of four the shortstop drew in the game) to load the bases...
Over the past two weekends I have had about 170 different boys bedded down at my house.... They went to people in every alley and they are responsible for getting this vote, which no matter how the newspeople discuss its meaning ad nauseum, was a vote not so much against any combination of things; but a vote FOR Senator McCarthy. This is the man we are looking for--honest and believable. He came here a laughable figure, magnanimously conceded 5 per cent of the vote and he won because he represents what the young have been parading and sitting down...
...FABULOUS FUNNIES (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). A gallery of comic-strip characters-including Alley Oop, Little Orphan Annie, Prince Valiant and Dick Tracy-leaps onto the TV screen in song-and-dance routines, animated episodes and interviews with such cartoonists as Al Capp, Milton Caniff, Charles Schulz and Rube Goldberg. Carl Reiner is the host...