Word: hille
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been endowed with an excessive share. He is egotistical enough to turn a sizable chunk of Texas into a memorial to himself (including a special plaque at the Hye Post Office immortalizing it as the spot where four-year-old Lyndon Johnson mailed his first letter). He is a "hill and valley" man, way up one day, deep down the next. He can be so overbearing to aides and so intolerant of debate within his official family that many of his best lieutenants have left him, often forcing him to surround himself with less-talented cronies. Increasingly, his staff...
Ware is a fast left wing whose back checking gives the line defensive viability. Macadamia is a sophomore strickhandler, from Belong Hill on the order of pension Kent Parrot...
Just up the hill from Cost Plus is Ghirardelli Square, a festive complex of shops and restaurants carved out of an old chocolate factory by Architects Wurster, Bernardi & Emmons. Matson Line Heirs Mrs. William P. Roth and her son have spent $10 million on the project, lured such prestige tenants as Design Research and Trader Vic Bergeron, who put in a Mexican restaurant called Senor Pico's. Now the Roths are expanding further into an adjacent woolen mill...
There was no doubt that in April 1965, in San Antonio, Raymond Sledge shotgunned his ex-wife and her husband to death in front of witnesses. The jury's only problem was to decide whether he was sane or insane. Two psychiatrist witnesses, Dr. Alfred Hill and Dr. James Paul McNeil!, agreed that he was in a paranoid state, that he had been and still was insane. Dr. Hill said that he was not treatable, was potentially dangerous, and "should not be permitted to have freedom again in his adult life." Dr. McNeill warned that under treatment. Sledge would...
That was 19 months ago. Last week Sledge was free. His attorneys had asked for a new sanity hearing, and in August Dr. Hill ignored his previous opinion and testified that Sledge "is, today, not a potentially dangerous criminal." The hearing ended with a hung jury, and another was held this month. At that one. Dr. McNeill also changed his mind. Forgetting his warning, he stated that Sledge was now of sound mind and sane. No contradictory testimony was offered by any state witnesses, and the jury had little choice but to free the killer. Sane enough at least...