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...Stevenson. But nothing like this had ever happened before to Clinton, Mass., and the residents of the old factory town 36 miles west of Boston were doing their best to get ready for the momentous day. They swept the streets, hosed down the red brick storefronts, and slapped a coat of paint on the interior of the town hall, where the great event would take place...
...days later police arrested Adam Topa, now 56, a factory worker who knew Ferretti and had been out drinking with the victim the night of the murder. The evidence against Topa was strong but largely circumstantial: bits of wool found on his bloodstained jacket matched the woman's coat. The most striking evidence came from a sound spectrograph, a machine that reduces speech to electronic "pictures" called spectrograms or voiceprints. Lieut. Ernest Nash, Michigan State Police expert, testified at Topa's trial in 1973 that the voiceprint of the telephone confession matched Topa's, not Ferretti...
...does allow a painting to travel for any significant distance, they might replace its glass shield with plexiglass, using a special filtering plexiglass to protect water-colors from fading in strong sunlight. The technicians would coat sculpture with a plastic varnish to protect it from scratches in transport...
...country house that he heats entirely by wood. Says he: "My main occupation is splitting billets of maple and birch." Being in good shape helped on his first interview with Ronstadt, when he suddenly found himself jogging up Fifth Avenue at 10 p.m.-she in Frye boots and lynx coat, he in jacket...
...overwhelmingly female lines of work--beautician, sales workers, waitress, office worker and homemaker. In all but one case, Howe got her information by spending time in one establishment which served as a paradigm for the industry; in the one exception, she actually worked as a sales clerk in "Ladies' Coats." She interweaves descriptions of specific working conditions and discussions of problems faced nationwide by women in each line of work with her interviews, bringing to light aspects of each little working world rarely apparent to outsiders. Her respondants speak of the agony of having no place to sit down momentarily...