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...denied involvement, but later, during a session with Charlotte Hypnotist Stann Reiziss, blurted out a barely coherent story in which he implicated at least eight people in the murder, even though physical evidence at the scene suggested the presence of only one. Two of the three other defendants, Brothers Lester and Richard Flack, were convicted on the basis of Forney's story, which one defense attorney now calls an "incredible tale." Forney and CoDefendant Stephen Christopher Hunt have both had their convictions reversed on grounds other than hypnosis, and are awaiting new trials. The Flacks remain in jail, each...
...acre every year. The experts say a tolerable limit is a five-ton loss. So if nothing more is done, in less than 50 years the great resource on which rests our national strength and confidence will begin to ebb. And we could lose more than that, says Lester Brown of the Worldwatch Institute in Washington. A thousand years ago, the Mayan civilization in the Guatemalan lowlands disappeared in a few decades after 17 centuries of development. Modern analysis found that this agriculture-intensive society collapsed when the topsoil...
Patronage, surely, was the sleazy underside of the Trudeau heritage, but it must also be said that after 16 almost uninterrupted years in office, Trudeau did not leave this bickering, fragmented country as he found it. A previous Prime Minister, the engaging Lester B. Pearson, gave us a flag. Trudeau, going one better, brought home a constitution, severing our last official colonial cord. Now that we've got some of the furniture of nationhood, all we need is a proper house...
...wishes he had the gold medal. "Everything's changed. I could buy the restaurant now." Slowly he mentioned the names of some of those responsible for the success of the civil rights movement in their various contradictory ways: Martin Luther King Jr., George Wallace, Robert Kennedy, Lester Maddox . . . The voice was muffled and much thicker than one had prayed. He spoke as if he had a handkerchief in his mouth. I suggested that maybe throwing the Olympic medal off the bridge had helped in that cause too? He did not comment...
Perhaps two dozen or more longtime managers, editors and writers could become instant millionaires when the transaction is approved by the staff and the Labor Department. Editor Marvin Stone, 60, and Managing Editor Lester Tanzer, 54, will each collect about $5 million; employees such as Circulation Clerk Evelyn Fox (43 years seniority) and Chauffeur Obadiah Person (39 years) will collect $400,000 or more...