Word: lawson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their appearance--there was something foreign about these men with high foreheads and mustaches, thick lenses and paunches. The Committee had cast two sets of roles: American and un-American. There was no question which the writers were to play. After the oldest of the accused, John Howard Lawson, finished his emotional and over-worded lambasting of the Committee, a loud angry whisper was heard in the hearing room...
...Richard Francisco Thomas, first son of that bright-eyed doer of good deeds on The Waltons TV show, Richard Thomas, and Wife Alma, a former grade-school teacher. "I was expecting a girl," said Dad, adding that he would probably keep trying. At the same time, in London, Jason Lawson took his first bow as well. He is the son of Actor Leigh Lawson and former Disney Pollyanna Hayley Mills, who is still awaiting her divorce from British Film Producer Roy Boulting. "I feel married both emotionally and physically to Leigh," said Hayley, "and that is what is most important...
...years later, the couple were married, and Mills bore a son. Now a ripe old 30, Hayley has come a long way indeed from her Disney days. Her latest credit: she has been named the "other woman" in a divorce suit filed by the wife of British Actor Leigh Lawson, 32, whom she met last May while the pair were starring in a London stage comedy. "I love him, and I believe he loves me; I just want us to be together," says Hayley, who is separated from Boulting and expecting Lawson's baby this summer...
...woman's right to retaliate violently against rape. But the prosecution contended that rape is not a justification for homicide. Moreover, the state argued that there had been no rape, that the killing followed a row over drugs. The jury found her guilty and Superior Court Judge Stanley Lawson sentenced her to five years' to life imprisonment. Now the California Court of Appeals has ordered a new trial, though the reason has nothing to do with women's rights. In instructing the jury, said the court, Judge Lawson erred by explaining the criteria for guilt in terms...
Calm and smiling, the blonde young woman turned to the Miami gas-station attendant, raised what looked like a gray flashlight-and fired. "I fell on the floor and couldn't move," recalled William Lawson. "It was like sticking your finger in a wall socket . . . the worst pain I ever felt." Though he did not know it at the time, Lawson, 27, had been felled by a brand-new, high-voltage weapon called the stun gun. More properly known as a Taser,* the gun was developed for law-enforcement use. No police force has yet bought it, but thugs...