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...jury took only 1 hr. 50 min. to find Gacy guilty. Next day, he received his sentence: death by electrocution. "It's God's will," Gacy told Prosecutor Kunkle. "The jury just did to me what I've been trying to do to myself for so many years." Judge Louis B. Garippo set the execution date for June 2, but there will be an automatic appeal under Illinois law. The case will drag on for months, if not years, and some cannot wait for it to end. "He killed my son and we're going...
...rioters assaults on police, the most important determinant for making arrests. Over 180 unarmed security personnel were injured in the attacks, in which the demonstrators wielded torches, iron bars and spiked clubs while shouting threats like "Beat them to death!" ("P'a hou yin hsi!" in the Chinese Min-nan dialect). The rioters even looted a police station and injured the staff there. The police, on the other hand, were forbidden to fight back. Unlike the impression conveyed in quotes by Linda Arrigo, no demonstrators were hurt...
...popular as still photography; while nearly all homes have a still camera, only about one-quarter have movie cameras. Polavision was also expensive and the picture quality often poor. The camera and a small viewer that looks like a TV screen cost $675, plus $9.95 for a 2-min. 40-sec. film cartridge. The product never took hold despite heavy promotion. Some officials within the company opposed Polavision, but Land, who applied for his first patent on the process in 1946, insisted on its development...
...south of Los Angeles, 9-ft. waves caused a section of the Pacific Coast Highway to collapse, isolating the wealthy beachfront town of Malibu. Because of a power failure, the Tapia Treatment Plant shut down, causing 15,000 gal. per min. of raw sewage to flow down Malibu Creek to the ocean and forcing officials to close beaches along 25 miles of shore, as far south as Marina Del Rey. In Redondo Beach, harbor officials scuttled the Lady Alexandra, a 225-ft. ship converted into a restaurant and disco. Storm-whipped waves had turned the ship on its side...
...remember their orders-to practice pinpoint passing. The weakness of this hybrid approach showed up in a big game against the Czechs. With a one-man advantage after a Czech penalty, the Americans got too clever by half: they fecklessly passed the puck back and forth for 1 min. 40 sec., until time ran out. All the while, Brooks was screaming, "Shoot! Shoooot...