Word: denson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Howard Denson Jacksonville
...policemen, Terry Denson, 27, and Stephen Orlando, 22, were prosecuted at a trial that was moved from Houston to the small town of Huntsville. They were convicted last Oct. 7, but only of negligent homicide. Each got a suspended sentence of one year and a $2,000 fine...
After that light sentence, the U.S. Attorney for Houston, J.A. ("Tony") Canales, himself a Mexican American, brought federal charges against Denson, Orlando and a third policeman, Joseph Janish, 24, on charges of conspiracy and violating Torres' civil rights. He acted under a new Justice Department policy inaugurated by Attorney General Griffin Bell that allows federal trials for defendants previously tried at the state level when this is necessary "to vindicate broader principles...
...retirement is an extravagant waste of people pie. I've seen the tragedy and poignancy of people being pushed out of their jobs, having their health falter because there is nothing to live for. Economically, socially and spiritually, it's wrong." The words alone would qualify Claude Denson Pepper as Congress's leading foe of mandatory retirement; the fact that the Representative from Miami is 77 years old makes him an undeniable Capitol Hill champion...
Indeed, any resemblance between the old Trib and the new entry is coincidental. Though Saffir has chosen as editor John Denson, seventyish, who also edited the Herald Tribune (from 1961 through 1962), the new Trib will lack one important characteristic of its predecessor: news. Denson has designed a stylish, magazine-like tabloid filled with canned features from syndicates and wire services, graced with an aggressively pro-business editorial page and almost devoid of breaking stories. Saffir defends that formula, which was first presented in a June 27 preview edition, on the grounds that the city's three major dailies...