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...farms in Germany, Federal Judge Julius Hoffman, 85 (who presided at the Chicago Seven trial in 1969), ruled that he had won citizenship by hiding his Nazi past. Facing deportation, Walus, 58, hired a new attorney who found documents showing that the Gestapo had a 5-ft. 7-in. height minimum (Walus is 5 ft. 4 in.) and did not accept Poles. An appeals court overruled Hoffman, and the Government has dropped the case...
...might have mentioned the defensive boards as well. Rebounding at both ends of the floor has been a Crimson weakness thus far, particularly against teams equalling the Crimson's height...
...defendants were saved from the noose by the 1975 Indemnity and Compensation Act, which shields government officials from conviction for acts committed "in good faith" to suppress terrorism. The law had been passed by the white minority government of former Prime Minister Ian Smith at the height of the Rhodesian civil war and remained on the books after black nationalists took over the government of newly independent Zimbabwe last April. (The law was repealed only after the Tekere trial began.) At the advice of their Gibraltar-born white lawyer, Nick McNally, the defendants claimed that they were only trying...
...John Belushi on a mountaintop, roll the cameras, and what will result: (a) Animal House on a Hill, (b) The Blues Brothers Camp Out or (c) Samurai Height Fever? Answer: none of the above. In Continental Divide, Belushi climbs into what he calls his first "realistic acting role," one that is "less of a cartoon than any I've done before." It takes him 14,000 ft. up in Colorado's Sangre de Cristo mountains, where he portrays a Mike Royko-like Chicago reporter who has raked so much local muck that his editors have decided to pack...
Providence tightened its original 1-2-2 zone and effectively boxed out the cagers (forcing them to take long, wild outside shots), capitalizing on its superior height under the boards for the rebounds. The Friars began to shoot, too, dunking in 51 points, twice their first half tally, and not missing a shot from the line...