Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Approximately 650 people--mostly elegantly attired, perfumed women--were at Burton Auditorium to be treated to a gala evening complete with hair-cutting demonstrations, a style show, soft music, low lights, and invaluable grooming tips...
...police found the bodies of an elderly couple, Joseph and Isabelle Diosdado, in the back room of their feed store in Compton, Calif. Each had been shot twice, and the cash register was empty. Eight weeks later, following up an informant's tip, police officers arrested Bozzie Bryant Burton III, then 16. Young Burton asked to talk to his father, an auto-plant inspector who was already at the station in search of his son, but the police refused. They did advise him, however, of his right to remain silent and to consult an attorney. In the course...
...four appointees to the Supreme Court are all expected to lean toward a tightening of criminal-law procedures. But the Los Angeles County district attorney's office does not plan to seek review of the case by the "Nixon Court." It promises to try Bozzie Bryant Burton III for murder again -without using his confession. And it is confident of a conviction. Which suggests that the California Supreme Court is not coddling criminals, but is simply requiring proper practices by the police...
...footage compiled by Producers Burton Benjamin and Robert Chandler and Correspondent David Schoumacher added up to an implicit indictment of governmental agencies in general for their spying on citizens. But in accordance with strict new guidelines laid down by the network after the Pentagon episode, the producers took pains to avoid misleading editing...
...White Nile by Alan Moorehead. 368 pages. Harper & Row. $15. Handsomely and intelligently illustrated in this reissue, this decade-old chronicle of the river, its sources and explorers stands up as fine travel history. The heroes, of course, are the eccentric British explorers of the last century: Burton, Speke, Baker, Livingstone. Through primitive lands, fierce populations and climates, and frequent pestilence, they hunted the Nile to its source in Lake Victoria-as Moorehead puts it, "a sunburst of Victorian courage...