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...could start "ringing bells" in the minds of the jurors, reminding them of a bank robbery that did occur. Long before the jury was sequestered for Patty's trial, the press had reported that a grand jury was investigating her possible connection with the raid on the Crocker National Bank in Carmichael, a Sacramento suburb, on April 21, 1975. During the robbery, one woman was killed. Said Carter: "If you talk about banks in the Sacramento area, it seems to me it is raising the flag of the homicide question." And that, he felt, might unfairly harm Patty...
Benjamin H. Brown, advisor to the Fellows of the CFIA, said yesterday he received a "courteous" letter of apology from Crocker P. Snow after Brown and Edward R.F. Sheehan, another CFIA member, sent letters to the Globe protesting Snow's actions...
...when Penn coach Bob Crocker decided to go with freshman Wayne "he's only stopped 14 shots (in parts of three games) all season" Archambault as his starting goalie, he practially conceded that his squad was facing a loaded deck. Which...
...July the investors won approval for a $40,000 loan from the Bank of America, only to have it withdrawn when the bank found out the intended name. Dal Bozzo et al. got the money from Crocker National and opened anyway, on Belden Street, half a block away from the bank's towering headquarters. The Bank of America filed its suit and was promptly razzed by Herb Caen, the San Francisco Chronicle columnist...
Somewhere between the two is the vision of the contemporary saint as a person of persistently heroic virtue and courage whose life is a model for others -a Mother Teresa, perhaps, or a Mahatma Gandhi. "A saint is someone by whom one lives," says the Rev. John Crocker, Episcopal chaplain at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "someone who for us is a revelation of what life is all about...