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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RUTGERS AND THE WATER-SNOUTS, by Barbara Dana (Harper & Row; $3.95). Rutgers is a bulldog who composes light verse for friends. A marvelous readaloud book, especially for anybody who wants to find out what water-snouts...
...That site was chosen because of heavy publicity in Detroit. In the old, tree-shaded courthouse, the jury of local folk listened as 48 witnesses described the night of horror. They accused the police officers of beating and threatening the people in the motel in a desperate attempt to find a sniper who proved in the end to have been imaginary. Witnesses, some with criminal records, charged that August took Pollard into a room, that there was a shot, and that August emerged saying: "He didn't even kick." Prosecutor Avery Weiswasser contended that August and the two other...
...also acknowledged making conflicting statements immediately after the incident, saying that he had feared that he would be blamed for all three deaths. Judge William Beer, in a highly unusual move, ruled out conviction on lesser charges and directed the jury either to acquit August or to find him guilty of first-degree murder, with a mandatory life sentence. The judge reasoned that the prosecution's contentions ruled out manslaughter or second-degree murder. The all-or-nothing choice, however, made conviction more difficult. After two hours and 50 minutes, the eleven women and one man voted for acquittal...
Nearby army and police units can be dangerous. The best way to disarm them is to find out which secondary commanders have been passed over for promotion. Then the most competent can be cozened (with lofty language and basic career promises) into moving against government forces...
House guests would find him in "a kind of Holbein square cap of velvet and black velvet coat," scattering bread on the lawn for the birds. In the spring of 1900, when he was 57, he shaved off his beard and felt "forty and clean and light." His bared face revealed surprising strength-the iron spirituality of a worldly archbishop...