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...east Texas seat from which he is retiring after serving ten terms. Her opponents charge that Dowdy is abusing his franking privilege by sending out campaign literature for his wife. Even while on the campaign trail, she is continuing to collect the $22,500 salary she receives as a clerk in Dowdy's congressional office...
Through intermediaries, Jubin persuaded the police commissioner of the Palais to supply him and the Segards with a getaway car. They took along three hostages: the judge, a clerk and a secretary. With Jubin at the wheel, a black Renault sped off into the night, followed by two police cars and several autos filled with reporters. Unable to shake his pursuers on a wild ride through Paris, Jubin finally brought the car to a screeching halt, jumped out and yelled: "If you don't stop following me, I'll shoot a hostage." The police and the newsmen turned...
...clerk for Alphonso J. Zirpoli, the judge hearing the C.O. suit in California, said that judges in general do not like to render inconsistent decisions and that he expects the Washington ruling to carry great weight in future cases...
...that he was one of only two jury members who held out for a conviction. Asked if some jurors were influenced by the religious calling of the defendants, he said: "Yes. Some felt they could do no wrong. They were really prejudiced." Juror Vera Thompson, a Carlisle, Pa., stock clerk, allowed that Boyd Douglas, the Government's star witness, was "the reason you had a hung jury." She explained that several jurors simply did not believe Informer Douglas, the ex-convict who shuttled the Berrigan-McAlister letters in and out of prison and later turned copies over...
Southern Comfort. Gottwald did not always have such problems. He began his career half a century ago as a clerk at Richmond's Albemarle Paper Manufacturing Co., frugally saved his salary, invested all he could in the company's stock, and continued to do so as he climbed the management ladder. Ultimately he became president-and the biggest shareholder. Gottwald's dollar-tight reputation endeared him to bankers, who deemed him a sound credit risk. Indeed Gottwald and his sons were able to borrow $200 million ten years ago to buy Ethyl Corp. from General Motors...