Word: earl
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...Earl Baker, 19, Steven Booker, 19, and Anthony Freeman, 18, all drowned while in custody of three county deputies. They had been arrested on suspicion of marijuana possession at the annual "Juneteenth" public festival (commemorating June 19, 1865, when slaves in Texas first heard they had been freed). While the officers were ferrying the youths across Lake Mexia, the small boat capsized 80 feet from shore. The deputies swam to safety, which was impossible for their handcuffed captives. The Dallas Medical Examiner found that none of the suspects had any traces of marijuana in their bodies. The deputies were acquitted...
Still, many elected officials are wary about pushing such bills through the statehouse. Wisconsin Governor-Elect Anthony Earl opposes the bill that will come before the state legislature this winter, calling it unenforceable. Says Earl: "I think there would be widespread disregard for a change to 21." Some educators dismiss raising the drinking age on the grounds that it fails to address the teen-age "attitude" problem. Says Faye Gordon, coordinator of a Brookline, Mass., project in the public school system that uses such devices as a quiz show called You Bet Your Beer to persuade teen-agers...
...months after JFK's assassination, a special commission--appointed by President Johnson and headed by Chief Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren, reported its findings: Lee Harvey Oswald, a 24-year-old ex-marine who had lived for a time in the Soviet Union, fired the shots that killed JFK. The committee stated that it had "found no evidence" that either Oswald of his own assassin, Jack Ruby, "was part of any conspiracy, domestic or foreign, to assassinate President Kennedy...
...Mark White (D) Lloyd Bentsen (D) UTAH No Race Orrin G. Hatch (R) VT. Richard A. Snelling (R) Robert T. Stafford (R) VA. No Race Paul S. Trible Jr. (R) WASH. No Race Henry M. Jackson (D) W. VA. No Race Robert C. Byrd (D) WIS. Anthony S. Earl (D) William Proxmire (D) WYO. Ed Herschler (D) Malcom Wallop (R) Projections are from the Associated Press and ABC News as of 2:30 a.m. *--Too close to call
...Earl MacLaren, a 34-year-old Black Jamaican who has already earned an MBA and worked for the Exson Corp. said that many corporate firms seek "bright-eyed types who have never worked before, in whom they can breed a certain loyalty with library work for three or four years...