Word: hunts
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Violent crime is relatively rare in bucolic, lightly populated Vermont. So when an assailant killed Chiropractor Peter Sophos with a rifle blast to the face last year in Barre, its 9,800 citizens were shocked. Sophos' 18-year-old neighbor, Gordon Hunt, was arrested for the murder the same day. Police said that Hunt told them, "I always wanted to shoot someone...
Despite the angry mood of the community, the prosecutor and defense attorney proposed a plea bargain to Judge James Morse, which he was ready to accept. The deal: if Hunt would plead guilty to second-degree murder, his sentence would be ten years to life, with the possibility of parole after six years and eight months...
...escapade was planned to coincide with the annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission in Brighton, England. With U.S. support, the commission aims to ban commercial whaling completely by 1986. Greenpeace believed that the Soviets were violating the commission's recommendation that only native groups be allowed to hunt the California gray whale. With 23 men and women aboard, the Rainbow Warrior steamed across the Bering Strait to the Siberian whaling village of Lorino. Six Greenpeace members went ashore to hand out leaflets to workers at the whale-processing plant. Suddenly a contingent of Soviet soldiers arrived and arrested...
...across the map of Europe in search of entertainment, uplift and, dammit, a good time. It may all prove a little too much for some. But England, as usual, has the answer. Its name is Ragdale Hall. A gracious old country manor in the midst of the rolling Leicestershire hunt country, it exists to restore and rehabilitate vacationers who are suffering from too much dammit. Rooms start at $61 a day, and guests are offered psychocalisthenics, saunas, massage, beauty treatments, tennis, swimming, diet meals, no children, no tour guides and no alcohol. There is absolutely nothing...
...affair again. For last week, at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas (what could be more romantic?), Burton wed his companion of the past 18 months, Sally Hay, 35. It was Burton's fifth reading of the wedding vows. (Past partners: Sybil Williams, Taylor, Taylor again, and Susan Hunt.) After learning of the marriage, Taylor, whose current consort is Mexican Lawyer Victor Luna, pursed her lips into a smile and said, "I've known all along they would be married and happy together...