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...case under question, the court upheld the conviction of a man who, his lawyers argued, had been the victim of a police ploy to get him to incriminate himself. The defendant, Thomas J. Innis, was picked up by Providence police several days after he killed a cab driver with a shotgun, which he subsequently hid. On the way to the station house, one patrolman remarked to his companion about the handicapped children at a school near the arrest site: "God forbid one of them might find a weapon with shells and they might hurt themselves." Innis spoke up and directed...
...they began discussing their work as paid consultants to the Federal Government. The topic: How much they should bill a particular agency for their services$12,000 or $25,000? They decided that the bureau would swallow the higher fee without complaint and so, right there in the cab, they settled...
There was the rub. It was fine for people who owned cars to car pool or drive north to suburban train stations. It was merely inconvenient for those insulated by corporate life to get up at 6 a.m. and fall into the provided cab. It was actually a lark for the physical-fitness buffs, who could test their independence. But for many of the poor and infirm, the transit strike was a disaster...
...whittled down its list of "possibles" to 69. Included were a number of politicians, as well as several scientists and academics. Two weeks later, the Corporation had trimmed its list to 23. Finally, on the night of December 13, 1970, senior fellow Francis "Hooks" Burr '35 hailed a cab and headed off to Belmont to call on Derek Bok. Ten days later, Bok responded to the Corporation and--save the formalities of January--Harvard had itself a new president...
...DePalmas called a cab yesterday morning to go to the Somerville Bradlees department store. They got no farther than the edge of Washington St., where police, guarding a leaking tank car, turned them back...