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...locals. Jennifer doesn't give much thought to a friend's remark not to touch her because "something's wrong with her." Nor is she troubled by the unusually heated quarrels between her father and brother. But the incidental occurrences begin to follow a menacing pattern: An irate motorist trashes Stuart's car, a rejected suitor smashes his own hands...
...Says Milton Zilis, vice president of Johnson Controls: "Sears carries very heavy muscle, and it is constantly demanding innovation." This year Sears introduced Globe's DieHard Incredicell battery, which is smaller, lighter and more powerful than the previous model. In addition, the battery sounds a buzzer when a motorist shuts his engine off but leaves on the headlights. A set of indicator lights shows if the battery's charge is strong or fading...
...questions. I haven't seen or heard from him in 14 months." One episode occurred often enough to become a sort of national nightmare: militiamen would set up an impromptu checkpoint, stop a car and discover the driver belonged to an enemy sect. Sometimes the motorist would be shot, sometimes he would be hustled away and executed later...
...Drunk's Castle. Edward Welsh was already in bed when the police came pounding on his door in Madison, Wis. They had been alerted by a motorist who saw him driving erratically. The officers, who had no warrant, were admitted to Welsh's home by his stepdaughter. They went to his bedroom and arrested him for drunk driving. In Wisconsin, a first drunk-driving conviction is a civil offense that carries no jail sentence. Welsh appealed the legality of his arrest all the way to the Supreme Court. He was vindicated when the Justices ruled...
Although police said they were not certain that Zona was killed by a motorist, Middlesex County Medical Examiner George Hori, who conducted an autopsy on Zona's body, said "everything points to a hit-and-run. From the injuries we saw, we don't think he was beaten by anybody...