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...courtroom signaled its high importance. For one, Britain's Attorney General, the country's highest law officer, who normally prosecutes only major espionage cases, was on hand to try a criminal case. For another, a newly erected shield of bullet-resistant glass surrounded the prisoners' dock. Behind the glass sat the defendants: Ian Brady, 28, a skinny stock clerk, and his blonde mistress, Myra Hindley, 23, a shorthand typist. Both pleaded not guilty to the charge of murdering a 17-year-old youth and two children whose bodies were exhumed late last year from shallow graves...
Comedians and novelists alike attested tirelessly to the aromatic glories of the Brighton Beach Express and the Gowanus Canal, the beery, cheery heartland of dock-wallopers and sailors' broads and Yiddishe mammas, the wasteland of peeling tenements where a Tree Grew. Brooklyn was where every uprooted native from Al Capone to Barbra Streisand was congratulated on being from...
...swells in the northward-flowing Gulf Stream, and visibility was down to half a mile. But away they went anyhow, 31 boats roaring out of Biscayne Bay into the heaving Gulf Stream. Within minutes, last year's Griffith winner, Bill Wishnick, was back at the dock: his co-driver Allen Brown had smashed both ankles on the jolting deck of their 28-ft. Broad Jumper. About the same time, Gar Wood Jr. bounced Orca onto a sand bar off Cape Florida, clambered out, and watched helplessly as his $150,000 craft split open and sank...
...students moved from the loading dock to an adjacent roadway, while the crowd remained on the loading dock. Eventually the jeering died down. After the lunch hour ended, the crowd gradually dispersed...
About 50 workers in Newmarket Square burned copies of a leaflet entitled "Why Should You Pay for the Vietnam War?" They shouted obscenities and threatened to force the students to leave the loading dock where they were handing out the leaflets...