Word: objections
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Browning attacked Patty's credibility-a key issue-by dangling in front of the jury a small, stone figurine of a monkey. Patty was carrying the object in her purse on the day she was arrested last September. The prosecution claimed it was a gift from S.L.A. Member William Wolfe, who was killed during the shootout with police in Los Angeles. "She couldn't stand Willie Wolfe," said Browning, but she carried that stone with her to the day she was arrested. "Yet there is the little stone face that can't say anything but, I submit...
Before long, they began swinging apart. By 1967, stories began turning up in the columns that Lord Snowdon, then back at work as a photographer, was mixing pleasure with business. One rumored object of affection-quickly denied-was a Chinese model who recalled Tony's old, pre-Margaret flame...
...June 4, 1763 the Sac Indian tribe and the Chippewa tribe were playing a game outside an English fort in Canada. The object of the game was to club--or crosse--opposing players senseless. Amused, the men of the fort came out to watch, leaving the fort unguarded...
...reorganization under federal bankruptcy law last year (TIME, Oct. 13), the Los Angeles firm of Sam Nassi Co.. which specializes in liquidating bankrupt retailers, has been overseeing the sales. Nassi, 54, himself a former discount retailer (whose first liquidation was of his own store), says that the object of the dismantling is to "get the most money out as fast as you can." Apparently, he has been doing just that for Grant. Before they closed their doors, the remaining Grant stores in the West, South and Midwest moved some $235 million worth of goods...
...until his twenties--he kept careful diaries of interesting occurrences. He hoped to be a writer then and composed poems and short stories by the notebook. Wittingly or not, almost all had a common protagonist--himself. Skinner was preoccupied with himself throughout his youth, but only as an alien object, a specimen. (In his first experiment with behavior modification, he invented a Rube Goldberg contraption to raise a "Hang Your Pajamas" sign in his doorway when he stepped...