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Outside the official investigation, a different story began to circulate. News organizations quoted two witnesses as saying policemen held Grams down after he was captured and shot him to death at point-blank range. Said Joanna Baron, a sales-clerk at a station food stand: "Two policemen walked up to Grams, who was lying motionless. One bent over and shot him several times from close up. Then the second officer shot at Grams, but more at his stomach and legs. He shot several times." The subsequent medical examination supported eyewitness accounts: it showed that the shot that caused the fatal...
Many complained of what they viewed as partisan power plays by the 5-member CCA majority on the current council, including the firing of former City Clerk Joe Connorton...
...prepared to tackle a Double Whopper with Cheese and a large French fries at a downtown Houston Burger King last week, Daniel Minturn, a stocky shipping clerk, paused a moment to reflect on the possible consequences: "I do my best off and on to keep to a diet," Minturn sighed. "But everywhere you turn, it's a warning for this and a warning for that. So what's wrong with just now and then going out and enjoying what you want...
...shyness makes some people think she is cold but that she simply has the innate 10-second delay of the careful lawyer. Says Schafran: "She thinks first and then speaks. She has learned to be unafraid of dead airtime." She is equally careful in her writing. A former clerk, David Post, says he'd often get a draft back from her "totally torn apart. Every word got examined, literally." At first, Post didn't like clerking for her. "It was very painful. But I'll be forever in her debt, because that's what the law is -- language...
...wave I thought I was surfing on turns out to be little more than a splash in a puddle. Amgen edges up to 39 in most marketmakers' quotes! If it climbs higher, I'm really in trouble. "Cut your loss! Cut your loss!" shouts Houtkin, so I ask the clerk to buy any shares remaining at 38 7/8, which Kidder, Peabody provides. My loss: $1.25 -- or $125 had I been a regular customer. Easy come, easy go. But it sure beats blackjack...