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During her first days in court, a judge assumed she was a legal secretary; when she stepped up to the bench, he asked where her boss was. Another judge, accustomed to male attorneys, mistook her for a mental patient and started to have her committed before she identified herself. "At least that incident ended with both sides laughing," she says. "Most...
...almost fifty years after blacks first exerted national political leverage in 1868, the black vote was dependably Republican and often pivotal. During that 50 year period, only two Democrats were able to defeat the Republican Presidential candidate as blacks mistook the Hayes's and Tafts and McKinleys for the Second Coming of Abraham Lincoln...
...mayor's birthday greetings to the generalissimo, got front-page play. Unfavored candidates get heavy coverage in unfavorable situations. When Muskie was noncommittal about Gay Liberation, the Union Leader was there to point out on Page One that he had not condemned it. When Mrs. George McGovern mistook a portrait of Daniel Webster for William McKinley, Loeb viewed the lapse with such alarm that he used it in one of his frontpage editorials to question Senator McGovern's qualifications...
...shops and a customs office, in incidents similar to one the week before that killed four people, including a 17-month-old boy when a furniture store was blown up. At Coalisland, a gloomy Catholic town 40 miles west of Belfast, members of the Protestant-dominated Ulster Defense Regiment mistook a 16-year-old boy, Martin McShane, for an I.R.A. gunman and shot him to death. In response, several hundred Coalisland youths rioted; four government vehicles were burned or wrecked...
Last week's violence was set off by a tragic accident and the harsh action of a weak government. When a small delivery truck backfired at a traffic light in Belfast, a nervous British sentry apparently mistook the sound for a sniper's shot and gunned down the driver, a Catholic father of six. Catholic passions quickly rose to the flash point, and Protestant right-wingers demanded that British troops "take the gloves...