Word: goin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...July, a cop with a previous record of assault shot and killed José Reyes, 28, a former mental patient, in the doorway of his home. The police say he was threatening the cop, but a witness told TIME Correspondent James Willwerth that Reyes had stumbled and "was goin' in the house on all fours" when the policeman, .standing over him, fired twice. The episode inflamed Reyes' Puerto Rican neighborhood-and provoked demonstrations outside city hall
...Though he was living well on sizable composing royalties, Nelson left Nashville in 1972 when his house burned down and he retreated to a ranch on the edge of Austin. Says he: "The University of Texas was there, and I had an idea that the young people was really goin' to like country music. They were havin' a rough time findin' it sometimes; they were afraid to go to some of the places where hippies might not be welcome...
...shop all night long, grasping a gun, his German shepherd at his heels. A gang of men began to menace him. He cried out: "If you shoot me, my dog will get you!" They closed in relentlessly. Blye shouted again: "I got ten cans of potash upstairs! I'm goin' upstairs now! I blind you, you come up the stairs after me! I blind you!" The crowd left him alone...
...tracker's real training comes from years of hunting in the thick oak and hickory woods or gathering ginseng roots, which sell for $75 a pound and are used as a tonic to prolong sexual endurance. Notes Guard Rich Trail, 20: "I've been goin' squirrel huntin' and coon huntin' and ground hog huntin' and rabbit huntin' as long as I can remember." Adds Guard Sammy Joe Chapman, 33, who caught Ray and the last escapee, Douglas Shelton: "Coon hunting at night is good training for tracking down James Earl Ray and those...
...hall. "This used to be a great, far-out place, lots of parties and no hassle," said Rabbit, one of the final dozen hippies who last week evacuated their grimy quonset hut on the edge of town. He added: "I don't see how the ole reverend is goin' to make...