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...Antonio a sheriff's lieutenant was just sentenced to two years' probation for repeatedly zapping a handcuffed suspect last summer. In April in Dallas, another worry of stun-gun critics became reality when a pair of robbers used one to disable a clerk in a Safeway supermarket. In Los Angeles, the county coroner is investigating the death four weeks ago of a suspected PCP drug user who was zapped by police. It was the second such fatality in two years, though PCP is considered more likely to have been responsible for the deaths than the zappings...
...Coop offered the new Sills recordings--which had been unavailable for several years--at a discount price. But, as one Coop clerk told the crowd, "First you go upstairs and buy an album and then come downstairs to have Miss Sills autograph...
...sheer passage of time has helped to heal some wounds. But it has left a certain fatalism. In Viet Nam, the G.I.'s absurdist, shrugging slogan was "It don't mean nuthin'." Today Jim Garnett, a Seattle carpenter who served as an Army supply clerk, says, "It was just something we all went through. Like when you were a kid and your old man comes home drunk at night. He wakes everybody up, everybody knows what's going on, and it makes everyone real uncomfortable. But in the morning, no one talked about...
Schmidt, a former Earl Warren law clerk, notes pointedly, "Chief Justice Warren, as he was retiring, said several times he wanted to leave in good health to set an example for others to follow before their powers became impaired." But informing a failing Justice when to leave has always been a delicate matter. At the turn of the century, when one member of the court was designated to suggest resignation to the often befuddled octogenarian Stephen Field, the younger man eased into the subject by reminding him of a similar visit Field had once had to make to a senior...
...flavor sold by Haagen-Dazs, the successful (1984 sales: $100 million) ice cream subsidiary of Pillsbury. The similarity of the two brand names has spurred Baskin-Robbins to sue Haagen Dazs for trademark infringement. A Dallas federal court is considering the case, not without some amusement. Says a court clerk: "It's embarrassing to see these grown men carrying on about ice cream...