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...with prior arrest records -- turned up. Smith, 39, filed a suit for false arrest. Last week Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Joel Rudof ruled that despite Smith's detailed account of the murder of a woman she never knew or saw, police did not have probable cause to lock her up. Smith's attorney has asked for $750,000 in damages; the jury's verdict is expected this week...
Directors and producers with Townsend's kind of moxie are storming the film industry like the Bedouin warriors in Beau Geste. No longer do the seven major studios and several so-called mini-majors have a lock on what is shown in U.S. movie houses. More than 350 independent films were produced worldwide in 1986, an increase of nearly 60% from the previous year. While such independent cinema was once synonymous with sexploitation pictures and artsy foreign films, the new wave of modestly budgeted movies is gaining widespread acceptance at the multiplexes in Everytown, U.S.A...
...forth a similar effort into recruiting their own kind. Introverts don't recruit anybody because introverts don't care about other introverts whereas extroverts seek out other extroverts and generally tolerate introverts. Harvard puts up with a few hundred "pure academic students" every year to ensure that those who lock themselves up in their little libraries or laboratories and eventually do make a contribution to mankind through a lifetime of uninterrupted self-application can make all of us at Harvard look good, just as a Harvard championship team makes even senior Jay D. Katzman of Lowell House look good. Baltasar...
...father was a bit of a tyrant," Bette recalls. "He would flush the girls' makeup down the toilet. He'd lock my sister Susan out of the house when she came home too late. He taught my younger brother Daniel, who is brain damaged, to read and write by hammering and screaming at him until he got it. Every afternoon. None of us wanted to be in the house. But Daniel did learn, and it's made a big difference in his life. It gave him freedom. My father always thought I was a little odd. He never chose...
Hormel, Mn.--Laborers for the Hormel meatpacking corporation have been striking for more than a year now and are still being ignored by their union. Even though this lock out, a culmination of Reagan's union-busting philosophy, is slowly being forgotten, the strike may bring new life to the labor movement by encouraging the development of grass roots labor organizations...