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Grave Errors. Police had originally been led to Corona when receipts made out to him were found in one grave. Then they found blood on some of Corona's possessions. But the case against him soon proved to be less than ironclad. The prosecution admitted that some bodies had been improperly labeled, and no one could tell which had been found where. Blood samples taken from knives belonging to Corona were too fragmentary to be connected with the victims. Tire tracks at one gravesite were said by police to have come from one of Corona's trucks, until...
...Your implication that TV is "toppling old taboos" is inaccurate and misleading. Until TV topples the old and ironclad taboo against showing the conservative view in a favorable light, it will remain just what it has always been: a mouthpiece for the left-wing propagandists...
...County cost Richard Nixon Illinois' electoral votes, 633 indictments resulted in zero convictions. Last week the Chicago Tribune, after months of diligent digging, published charges of massive vote manipulation in the state primary last March by Mayor Richard Daley's Democratic organization. This time the evidence seemed ironclad...
...negotiate with the terrorists or release any prisoners, 2) to tell the Germans that they had full responsibility for any rescue action and 3) to indicate that Israel would not object should the Germans give the terrorists safe-conduct out of the country-provided that they received ironclad guarantees that the hostages would then be freed...
...text to Pope's views on Chicago's painting and his own: "The thing that interests us and delights us is the strangeness of the world, its surprises and mysteries, the impossibility of explaining it. I don't go along with science when it looks for ironclad explanations of phenomena. Likewise I resent the counterpart notion in art, that it is a problem-solving activity, that it has only one great direction-'the mainstream'-which moves with a sort of fine, Vatican logic. Much good art, the art that interests me, veers away from...