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Last week the man who altered the transcripts was brought to justice-in a manner of speaking. Joe Woolley, former coach at Ball High School in Galveston, Texas, where Jackson and Phillips were students, pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge. He had upped their class ranking, said Woolley, simply to make them eligible for athletic scholarships under N.C.A.A. rules. The possible maximum sentence was $1,000 and a year in jail. Woolley was fined all of $25. District Attorney Ron Wilson, who recommended the wrist-slap approach, explained, "I can't think of a more laudable reason...
...pressure drops when the excitement is over. But according to one theory, in many the level drops by smaller increments, eventually stabilizing at a higher level than before. Significant increases in blood pressure were recorded among Russians who survived the siege of Leningrad and Texans who survived the Galveston Harbor holocaust in 1970. Similar increases might well be found among people concerned by the current economic situation. A study has revealed that men facing the loss of their jobs experienced increases in blood pressure that lasted through the period of unemployment and did not drop until they found work again...
Died. William Maurice Ewing, 67, U.S. geophysicist, oceanographer and first winner of the Vetlesen Prize, top award in the earth sciences; of a stroke; in Galveston, Texas. For four decades Ewing was a passionate, omnivorous student of the earth's structure. He pioneered the use of shock waves to explore the ocean floor and during World War II devised a system of naval communication based on the long-range transmission of explosion waves under water. Director of Columbia University's Lamont Geological Observatory (now Lamont-Doherty) from 1949 to 1972, he logged thousands of miles aboard its research...
...depicted a working-class British couple shedding blood over a bloodless marriage. In The Foursome, which was written before Alpha Beta, Whitehead focuses on four Liverpool youngsters barely out of their teens. In the present off-Broadway production, the setting and characters have been shifted to the outskirts of Galveston, Texas, and the transition has been effected with astonishing flexibility and no overt loss of authenticity...
...James Lomax, a Galveston, Texas, physician and murder researcher, adds that the olence" "mingling occurs of sex with frequently vi in the mind of the murderer. In one recent study, Lomax found that 25% of the young male murderers he investi gated had engaged in sexual acts, often aberrant, immediately after the murder...