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Word: carly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time of the murder, Ray said, he was not even in the rooming house from which the shots were fired. Where was he? "I believe I was at a gas station," he said. "Or I may have been driving around in my car." Under questioning, Ray could not provide the name of the station where he said he had tried to get a leaky tire repaired, and he was unsure of its location. Although claiming to be innocent of the murder, he said he fled Memphis in his white Mustang when he saw unusual police activity near the rooming house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: I Did Not Shoot King | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

...committee read a staff interview with former Chief Inspector Alexander Eist of Scotland Yard, who had guarded Ray after his arrest in England. Eist said that in informal chats Ray had admitted killing King. He quoted Ray as saying, "I panicked [when he saw a police car near the Memphis rooming house] and I threw the gun away. It was the only mistake I made." Eist said Ray bragged of being able to make as much as "a half-million dollars" through television appearances and writing books about the slaying. But Eist's credibility came under assault from Lane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: I Did Not Shoot King | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

Elvis Presley Boulevard, a wide strip of used car lots, fast food restaurants and gas stations, leads to Graceland. By noon the rising temperature is well into the 90s and ambulances are carrying away those who have succumbed to the heat while crowding in front of the ornate plantation-style house. A brick wall on the grounds has turned into a "Wall of Love," covered with scrawled messages from admirers. Some of the fans have patiently endured the three-hour wait every day for a week so they can again and again walk up the shaded driveway, past rows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Hound Dog Days in Memphis | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

Marvin E. Lewis, 71, is a flamboyant trial lawyer famous in San Francisco courts for winning highly unusual personal injury cases. He once persuaded a jury to award $50,000 to a woman who claimed that the trauma of a cable-car crash had turned her into a nymphomaniac. But never did Lewis come up with a more novel argument-or one with more profound implications-than in the case of Olivia Niemi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: TV Wins a Crucial Case | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

...earnest-looking man in a conservative suit comes on the television screen. No, he is not the fellow from H & R Block offering you another way to save tax dollars or even a used-car salesman trying to appear sincere. He is a lawyer, offering you a good price for a divorce, a will or a suit of almost any kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Selling Suits | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

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