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Died. Herbert Van Walker, 77, hard-line California superior court judge who sent 19 men to death row in 16 years on the bench; following a heart attack; in Newport Beach, Calif. Avuncular in appearance, Walker reduced just one of his death penalties to life imprisonment. However, only one of the men he sentenced to die ever went to the gas chamber: Convict-Author Caryl Chessman, whom Walker ordered executed in 1960 for a robbery and rape committed in 1948. The best-known survivor of a Walker death sentence is Robert F. Kennedy's assassin, Sirhan Sirhan...
Hill's staccatto shooting from the perimeter accounted for six field goals while he dropped six from the foul stripe. Rodgers snared five rebounds and Honick paced the offense with six assists. Sophomore Rich Bengal added 6 points coming off the bench as the backcourt combined for 32 points...
...then after Harvard had gone wild to tie the score, for a second time, midway through the third period, the Wilsons watched from the bench as, with 1:40 remaining, defenseman Steve Roberts fired a mortar from the right point that cleanly beat Brian Petrovek and gave the Friars the victory, their sixth of the young season without a single blemish...
While Suárez listened impassively on the blue leather government bench, Blas Piñar, head of an ultra-right group calling itself Fuerza Nueva (New Force) attacked the reform as a "stupid mask." Another right-wing coalition, the Popular Alliance, threatened that its more than 100 members would abstain from voting unless majority representation replaces the government's proposal that seats in the lower house be allotted by proportional representation. In the end, Alliance leaders and other conservatives were satisfied by a modest technical compromise on voting procedures...
...critics, he neither actively participates with his colleagues in their weekly discussion of cases nor writes his share of the court's opinions. The accusations got a surprising public boost when Chief Justice Donald Wright was quoted as saying of McComb, "He's on the bench about five minutes or so; then he falls asleep. I used to nudge him and wake him up a little bit, but he comes to with a start and makes the whole courtroom aware of it." One of McComb's associates argues that the charges are greatly exaggerated. Says...