Word: heaton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Clash era. In Hull, 150 miles north of the London scene, the Housemartins are purveying a pared-down rock with simple instrumentation and lots of political power heard to excellent effect on their most recent album, The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death. "In the north," reports Paul Heaton, Housemartins founder, co-songwriter and lead singer, "there aren't that many bands that can afford syndrums, synthesizers, brass. We're afraid to embrace full modern-pop production because sounding like a total pop band would be going with society a bit too much. That goes against our values...
Robert A. Heaton Jr. Muskegon, Mich...
Kahl, who grew up on a farm near Heaton, 40 miles from Medina, had taken wintertime jobs in Texas before moving there with his wife and six children in 1967. In Crane, Texas, he was known mainly as a quiet and hard-working supervisor in a company that cleans oil pipelines with steam. Sheriff Raymond Weatherby recalls that Kahl was "polite and nice until you got him talking about taxes. Then he was off to the races." Kahl organized about ten people into a Posse chapter in Crane. He drove a Dodge pickup emblazoned with two large white stars...
...after the shootout, an assault force composed of U.S. marshals, FBI agents, state and local police thought they had Kahl surrounded when they drew close to his modest Heaton farmhouse, not far from where the police car was found. During a 24-hour siege, the house was first approached by the tanklike personnel carrier, then bombarded with tear gas. Finally a SWAT team moved in, kicked down the door-and found the house unoccupied. Inside were more than 30 guns...
...system can only direct one foot to move in front of the other. Before it can be put to practical use, Petrofsky's 150-lb. device must be streamlined and miniaturized. "It's a mass of wires right now," says Wright State Technician Harry Heaton. "But it will eventually be a small microprocessor capable of being implanted pacemaker-style." Petrofsky says his system might be ready for commercialization within a decade. Others in the field find his optimism misleading. Says Dr. Paul Meyer, past president of the American Spinal Injury Association: "Imagine all that went into getting that...