Word: lineups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Agent Tommy Cauthen sat in his car, fuming. A volunteer for a police lineup, due to meet Cauthen on a rundown street in Kenosha, Wis., was more than an hour late. As Cauthen was about to give up and leave, he spotted another man who fit the general description of the volunteer-young, medium height and black-so the FBI man offered him $5 plus a ride home for standing in the lineup at the Waukesha County Jail, 40 miles and an hour's drive away. Without hesitation, Willie Walls Jr., 21, agreed and jumped into the agent...
Under court order to produce a lineup of people who resemble an actual suspect, police usually scour the area for other offenders, or enlist police trainees or even idlers to help out-sometimes for a token payment. In this case, authorities were looking for two gunmen who had robbed Racine's Union Savings & Loan Assn. of $4,782 on Dec. 30. They had managed to arrest a single suspect, Robert Brantley. Officers hoped that two female tellers would pick Brantley from among six young blacks in the lineup. To the authorities' astonishment, both tellers identified not Brantley...
Arizona State, perennial participants in the CWS, had raced to the No. 1 ranking while amassing runs at a nine-plus per game clip. This was the best Sun Devil club since the National Champs of 1965, which boasted Rick Monday, Sal Bando and Reggie Jackson in its lineup. The 1977 version was a star-studded lineup even without the services of first baseman Mike Hudgens, the nation's number two RBI man with 72. Hudgens was unavailable as a result of a virtual coach's nightmare; he lost concentration while playing catch, and the ball shattered his nose...
...another shuffling of the Harvard lineup, Pedroni started on attack with fellow freshman Mike Ward, while the usual regulars, Chico MacKenzie and Pete Predun, moved to midfield...
...maybe you just have to look deeper. The coaching has been marked by too much of playing one man off against another, one team member said Sunday. Different players are promised the same starting spot if they will work a little harder, and starters are pulled out of the lineup with the first mistake, the story goes...