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Cities in the basement are already contesting the criteria. By last weekend, Rand McNally was overwhelmed with outraged calls. One caller, Pat Lile, a Pine Bluff, Ark., development promoter, complained of Pine Bluff's 328th-place rating: "They don't contact one person or make one phone call. Other people use their data, and the damage proliferates." Said Mayor Edward Bartholomew of Glens Falls, N.Y., which ranked 290th: "We're going to have a public burning of (Rand McNally's) almanac and all their maps." Responded Rand McNally Public Relations Director Conroy Erickson: "All we've done is supply...
...formation of most characters ever so slightly, often subconsciously. Even their writing posture or how they feel about what they are writing can create minute variations. "Your signature on a $50,000 mortgage, is a little more careful than on a $10 check," notes FBI Special Agent James Lile, an expert in the documents section of the bureau's crime laboratory...
...Lile says revealing information can be found even in the letter of the alphabet that is simplest to reproduce: e. "You look at the size of the loop, the length of the elongation. Is it broad or narrow? Is the pressure greatest going up or down?" New York Autograph Dealer Mary Benjamin watches for ampersands, which, she says, she has never seen vary when made by the same hand...
That night a meeting was held in the First Baptist Church. Quietly began the whitewashing of Mr. Heard. A quarrel broke out. George Cox, his son George Cox Jr., strapping football player of the University of Arkansas, and J. W. Cox, a chiropractor, jumped on Dr. Henry Lile, a dentist. At once Footballer Cox was arrested, dragged off to jail...
Troops assembled next day at the courthouse. Followers of Evangelist Jeffers waved Bibles, sang hymns. Footballer Cox, his father, and Dentist Lile were tried for assault. The case against Father Cox was dismissed. The other two were fined $5 each. Evangelist Jeffers was not present, but reiterated that he would stay in town until "the church gets a real pastor." Glumly, Jonesboro went about its accustomed work, wondered what it had been so excited about...