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Recorder's Court began marathon sessions to arraign hundreds of prisoners herded in from the riot areas. In twelve hours, Judge Robert J. Colombo heard more than 600 not-guilty pleas. To keep the arrested off the streets until the city stopped smoking, bonds were set at $25,000 for suspected looters, $200,000 for suspected snipers. Said the harassed judge to one defendant: "You're nothing but a lousy, thieving looter. It's too bad they didn't shoot...
SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). The tragic never-never world of young addicts is explored during a group therapy session at Staten Island's Daytop Village in "Marathon: The Young Drug Users...
...that only a week before had lost ingloriously to tiny Ecuador in the American Zone finals. Illinois' black-browed Marty Riessen beat Denmark's No. 7-seeded Jan Leschly 1-6, 6-3, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4. Then, in an 89-game, 3 ½-hr, marathon that ranks among the longest in Wimbledon history, Texas' crew cut Cliff Richey outlasted Australia...
...also a heavy. The chorus, led by Susan Channing, is not, like most Greek choruses, self-conscious and uncomfortably out of place, but perfectly at ease as it stands around the stage reciting, or lounges in the front row of the auditorium. And Lloyd Schwartz makes a marathon of his two walk...
...Senatorial Heep." On the main count there was never much doubt, and Long's marathon defense served only to turn a painful exercise into an unseemly ordeal that ended by depriving Dodd of even the last vestige of dignity. Often sentimental, Dodd eventually pleaded his cause with the mawkishness of a white-haired Uriah Heep. "How many times do you want to hang me?" he asked his colleagues. "If you want to do it, be done with it-be done with it! Do away with me, and that will be the end! But in the twilight of my life...