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In between, we meet the villagers: cantankerous, narrowly provincial, soaked in religious zeal and, occasionally, intoxicated with a bizarre humor. The desire to escape a barren, futile existence is grimly repressed. It translates into a lurking violence. Three children taunt a woman said to be a hermaphrodite (Cecily Hobbs) and...
Though the Park Service refuses to reopen the old dumps, it is considering such tactics as leaving elk carcasses in grizzly territory not only to bolster the nutrition of the bears but to keep them from wandering off. The Government is also beefing up its patrols. One purpose is to...
Boyd did not shy away from tough cases. In one she helped white professors win a discrimination suit against predominantly black Alabama State University, ruffling some feathers in the black community. Boyd is fondest of civil liberties suits, but her heavy caseload also includes criminal, personal injury and domestic relations...
Kodak Spokesman Timothy Elliott said the matter was of "serious concern" to the company. He insisted that Kodak would hire from its pool of 100,000 job applicants on merit alone. If there are arrests, they would come under the Hobbs Act, which prohibits extortion in any business engaged in...
Sheriff Howard I. Hobbs said the fire was started by inmate Robert E. Paties. 31: of Granite City, Ill, who had been arrested Saturday and Sunday on charges of public drunkenness. Pates was incoherent Sunday and deputies held him at the jail because they believed he was danger to himself...