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...sequence. The suspense ended when Mariner broke its silence on schedule and began playing back the bits of digital code representing the pictures it had taken the day before. "When I saw that little printout tape and knew we had a picture," says Caltech's Dr. Robert B. Leighton, chief experimenter of the picture team, "my heart turned around...
...Puerto Ricans, Jesse Rodriguez and Simon Suarez, went to jail, charged with aggravated battery. Last week they were set free because Judge George N. Leighton ruled that they had acted in "self-defense...
...decision incensed Chicago cops, and state legislators angrily talked impeachment. But Judge Leighton, a Negro, a noted former criminal lawyer, and a magna Harvard Law graduate, stood his ground. He insisted that "a policeman has no right to pull a gun unless he knows a felony is being committed." Carrying a broken beer bottle is no crime, said Leighton. Besides, "How do we know that these men, who are unable to speak English, said what these officers say they said?" Ruled Judge Leighton: "The right to resist unlawful arrest is a phase of self-defense...
...KILDARE (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Robert Young and Margaret Leighton as a fatally ill doctor and his dangerously sick wife...
...spite of the banishment of smoke and soot, Los Angeles smog has grown progressively worse, and the same kind of air pollution has appeared in other parts of California. Chemist Philip A. Leighton of Stanford University believes that unless something drastic is done, smog will soon shroud most of the inhabited parts of the state. Other even gloomier prophets foresee a California unfit for human life...