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Last week, in an unusual procedure, Federal Judge Robert Takasugi asked some 177 potential jurors to fill out a 42-page questionnaire. The 110 wide-ranging questions include: "Have you or has any member of your family or any acquaintance ever owned a De Lorean gull-winged sports car?" "Have you or any member of your family used cocaine?" "Do you object to the Government being involved in 'sting' undercover operations, where the Government takes the role of supplying drugs to the person who wants to buy them...
Seagull Strikeout The amused tone of your report on the New York Yankee Dave Winfield incident is typical of the disdain that most people show toward gulls [Aug. 15]. They are among the most beautiful of birds, and their flight is one of considerable grace and agility. If Dave Winfield deliberately aimed at the gull, he should be charged with cruelty to animals...
...future, any descendant of Jonathan Livingston Seagull's in the Toronto area will have to be mighty gullible to believe that diamonds are a gull's best friend...
...will not be McMurray's last stay, "you got the air. You got exercise, weights. You got baseball." Down the way is a diamond lined with rotting bleachers brought from Ebbets Field after the Dodgers moved their bases west. Down another way, at water's edge, a gull fell like a thunderbolt and dive-bombed a crab. Canadian geese strolled about with proprietary postures, as if they paid property tax. Out on the sound, two swans snagged lunch for three cygnets. Then a backhoe coughed into business and covered Emily Nickert, 78, who lay atop Helen Aleon...
...penalty: a fine of up to $500 or six months in jail. Yankee Manager Billy Martin, loser of a dispute involving a home run hit by George Brett's now famous pine-tarred bat, felt that his star was getting a bad rap. "They say Winfield hit the gull on purpose," said Martin. "They wouldn't say that if they could see the throws he's been making all year...