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...acquired data on almost every rifle, shotgun and side arm of recent manufacture, and simultaneously developed microscopic devices for examining gun barrels and comparing projectiles. Waite's methods were vindicated at the Sacco-Vanzetti trial, where the new instruments demonstrated irrefutably that a bullet from the gun Nicola Sacco was carrying had killed the payroll guard, ∙ FORENSIC MEDICINE, a science that had languished since the Renaissance, came on with a rush in the 19th century when Germany's Rudolf Virchow and his followers began to study human tissue under the microscope. For most of the century...
...such an offbeat opener? "Because," explains Cindy, "we wanted to wake up cultural interests here, not just put them to sleep with the same old safe arias." In transporting Julius Caesar into the 20th century, Conductor Nicola Rescigno, who was imported from the Dallas Civic Opera with Producer Lawrence Kelly, compressed the unwieldy 51-hour libretto into three hours and, to allow for the inclusion of ballet sequences, added several numbers judiciously borrowed from other Handel operas...
...loudest liberals. He toiled for the N.A.A.C.P., helped found the American Civil Liberties Union. In the fledgling New Republic, he flayed the conservative Supreme Court for blocking urgently needed social and economic legislation. In 1927, he horrified proper Bostonians by attacking the murder case against Anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti as "a farrago of misquotations, misrepresentations, suppressions and mutilations." Irate alumni nearly got Frankfurter fired, but Harvard could hardly dump a man whom Justice Louis D. Brandeis called "the most useful lawyer in the United States...
...barrel." Gideon is a classic type of the cussedly independent man. His 22-page letter from jail (Lewis quotes it in full) to Washington Lawyer Abe Fortas, who was appointed to represent him before the Supreme Court, is an autobiographic gem that ranks with the famous letter that Nicola Sacco wrote from his death cell in Boston's Charlestown jail...
...father, Nicola, came to the U.S. from southern Italy when he was only twelve, soon bought his first Model T, and within eight years had parlayed it into a thriving rent-a-car business that grew to a fleet of 33 cars, mostly Fords. He returned to Italy at 31 to select his bride, found her in his home town of Benevento and honeymooned at Venice's sultry Lido Beach. Back in the U.S., they called their only son Lido out of sentiment for that spot. Iacocca's father branched into real estate around Allentown, Pa., so increased...