Word: cabs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thanks. Since Faretta, the number of pro se defenses has multiplied. Some of them have been impressive. In Plymouth, Mass., a do-it-yourself defendant, Anthony Jackson, a grade-school dropout charged with the murder of a young woman cab driver, successfully delayed his trial proceedings by arguing 45 pretrial motions himself. The judge pressured Jackson into accepting a licensed attorney for the main trial, and when the jury acquitted him two weeks ago, Jackson petulantly refused to thank the lawyer. Still another self-defender was Clifford Irving, author of the bogus Howard Hughes biography. He responded...
...said he decided to fulfill his pre-med requirements because medical school presents more of a guarantee that he "will not be driving a taxi cab after investing $7000 a year in a college education...
...their components. When the shortage passed, Weiger opened a 130,000-sq.-ft. manufacturing and assembly operation in Elkhart, Ind. He promoted the star of Midas' 30-model trailer, camper and motor-home lineup: the Midas mini-motor home, known as a Chopped Van. Midas buys the cab and chassis of a GM, Ford or Dodge van, then builds on an insulated aluminum and wood body complete with tub, shower, refrigerator, stove, beds and other amenities. Selling price: $12,000. Midas' sales of recreational vehicles jumped from $60 million in 1975 to $106 million in 1976. That...
...time that America hit back"). The French were conspicuously cool. Last week President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing made a point of not meeting with Andrei Amalrik, an exiled dissident who came to Paris with the express hope of seeing him. When Amalrik pulled up in a cab at the gates of the presidential mansion with a letter for Giscard, police hustled the visitor away...
...tantalizingly fit, but the right heel is blistered, bandaged and slippered, the result of a walk down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. "One of the things that is so difficult for me in this business is that I have to be so careful how I get out of a cab, how I walk across the street, how I might turn an ankle," reflects Shirley MacLaine. "I've gotta be careful about everything." Maybe so, but 22 years after her first movie and 23 years after going from Broadway understudy to leading lady, Shirley MacLaine is still racing through life...