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...that Oswald had acted alone. Discussing the House report, Michigan Congressman Harold Sawyer, a dissenting member of the committee, called it "supposition upon supposition upon supposition." A former prosecutor, Sawyer was asked what he would have done in his old job if someone had laid the report in his lap. Said he: "I'd have put it in the circular file. There would be no way to prosecute...
...draped the other end up through a cracked window into the back seat. Then he edged into the front seat, locked the doors, and turned the car on. It had run out of gas by the time a neighbor found him that afternoon. The wallet was open on his lap...
...draped the other end up through a cracked window into the back seat. Then he edged into the front seat, locked the doors, and turned the car on. It had run out of gas by the time a neighbor found him that afternoon. The wallet was open on his lap...
...being boyishly naive, Carradine is just pompous and prim. Certainly he is no match for Vitti, who has rarely seemed as radiant and emotionally full-blooded as she is here. With smoky eyes and a voice to match, she reduces her co-star to the stature of a lap...
Perhaps. The rules of stock car racing are vaguely drawn to give the competitors a lot of crowd-pleasing leeway, especially on the last lap when, as King Petty says, "you're getting down to pay dirt...