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Detroit was shocked by those nightmarish murders at an axle plant last July. But Defense Attorneys Justin Ravitz and Kenneth Cockrel reasoned that the tragedy had an equally nightmarish cause: a hell in the factory. Foreman Jones got Johnson suspended from his job one hour before the killings. The defense lawyer argued that the suspension, Johnson's general instability and inhumane working conditions-particularly for black men-had driven Johnson to murder while temporarily insane...
...lecture. "I remember thinking that all carbon atoms on earth had to come from the sun," he says. "The idea of being linked to the universe by these atoms, which really don't die, gave me a feeling of meaning." The mother was his own, he says, "in nightmarish exaggeration...
...Harvard baseball team, recovering in the wake of a nightmarish weekend where it lost three games and toppled from the Eastern League lead, received some good news yesterday as Navy split a pair with Yale to eliminate the Middies from the race...
Most observers feel that a compromise will be reached between Option 3, the "ground zero" no-change budget, and the fairly nightmarish Option 2. This option would see 50,000 jobs cut, with 12,000 hospital workers and 11,000 policemen leading the list, five hospitals and more than 20 drug-treatment centers closed, and an end to open enrollment at the City University, which exiting Chancellor Albert Bowker says would in effect close the university. The list underscores the obvious: it is the city's poor who will most feel the pinch of declining services...
Yale already has registered more victories-six-than in all of last year's nightmarish season. The Elis show a victory over southern powerhouse Jacksonville as well as a doubleheader split with Army...