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...diver Bruce Kimball posted bail on a double vehicular-manslaughter charge and instantly sprang back into the pike position. But he lost his Olympic trial and soon must turn to the other kind. What page of the paper suited this sad specter whose face was flattened by a drunk driver seven years ago? Since then he has garnered six traffic citations of his own, and one Olympic silver medal...
...most American men now over the age of 33, the draft was as much a part of growing up as getting a driver's license. Congress had reinstituted military conscription in 1940, requiring men to register when they turned 18. The unfortunate were generally drafted at 19, but a prospect remained eligible for induction until 26. The law exempted men with medical problems, as well as conscientious objectors, ministers and some in essential occupations. A key provision provided deferment for students. Yet to the horror of college students who had hoped to avoid going to Viet Nam by earning advanced...
...that very will is the object of a legal and ethical battle in the Minnesota courts. Five years ago, a drunk driver crashed into Sharon's car, killing her niece and leaving Sharon brain damaged and in a coma. She regained consciousness some weeks later, but could not speak and could move only her right hand. With the help of her roommate, Karen Thompson, an associate professor of physical education at St. Cloud State University, Sharon, then & 27, struggled to learn to sip from a glass, comb her hair, communicate with a typewriter. "We learned to play again, to laugh...
...coroner's office may now require relatives to identify their loved ones from a photo collection of corpses, show a driver's license or other identification, and be fingerprinted. The coroner would then run a computer check of the corpse's identity. These cold-eyed procedures would apply to the real relatives of Jane Doe No. 70, if they ever surface. Her ashes have been returned to the coroner's office...
...verdict confirmed the worst suspicions of many of the 200 blacks who live in the East Texas town of Hemphill. Last month a jury in that tiny village (pop. 1,350) found three white police officers not guilty of violating the civil rights of Loyal Garner, a black truck driver who had been arrested for drunken driving and died after an alleged jailhouse beating. Lamented Will Smith, a local black minister: "It seems as if there's justice for whites only in this society...