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...started to park her car at the Arizona State Capitol building one day in 1960, redheaded Lorna Lockwood was sternly waved away. "This space is reserved for a Supreme Court Justice," huffed the guard. Miss Justice Lockwood finally persuaded the doubter that she was in the right space. Now, four years after her election to Arizona's highest bench, Lorna Lockwood has risen again. Her Honor's four brethren have unanimously elected her the first woman state Chief Justice in U.S. history...
Chief Justice Lockwood's achievement is roughly akin to a woman taking over as coach of the Cleveland Browns...
...Last week Britain's Electric & Musical Industries, the world's largest recording firm and the world licenser for the Beatle disks, also made a record: it announced that sales for its last fiscal year rose 12% to $265 million. The rise, said Chairman Sir Joseph Lockwood, was due in part to "the outstanding success everywhere of the Beatles...
...investigation netted one suspect, a 54-year-old janitor who surrendered to police and was charged with killing another prostitute, red-haired Irene Lockwood, whose nude body was found in the Thames last month. The murder scare had another unexpected payoff for police. Fearful that a Jack the Stripper was still at large, whores stayed home by the thousands, cleaning London's sidewalks more effectively than all the vice squads in Britain...
...Wall Street "businesswoman," publicly proclaimed her belief in spiritualism, vegetarianism, short skirts, legalized prostitution and free love. On election night she was in jail on an obscenity charge. She got very few votes. Ulysses Grant beat her out. Then there is Washington, D.C.'s Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood, the first woman lawyer ever to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court. She ran in 1884 and again in 1888 on the Equal Rights ticket-but, as the victories of Benjamin Harrison and Grover Cleveland proved, the nation wasn't ready for her either...