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...competition to become a high school cheerleader get so hot that it leads to murder? Police in the comfortable suburban San Francisco community of Orinda had to consider that possibility last week. They arrested Bernadette Protti, 16, and charged her with the killing last June of Kirsten Costas, 15, a fellow student at Miramonte High School. Kirsten had beaten out Bernadette and other applicants for a cheerleader's position. The stabbing had shocked the affluent city...
DIED. Edward J. Daly, 61, pugnacious founder of World Airways and originator of no-frills U.S. air fares; after a long illness; in Orinda, Calif. Once a semipro boxer, Daly parlayed two World War II military planes (cost: $50,000) into a hugely lucrative charter line in the 1950s. In 1979 he offered one-way, cross-country tickets for $99.99, but major-airline competition, a strike, high fuel costs and a grounded fleet of DC-10s during a safety scare nearly plucked World...
Nelly Casati Orinda, Calif...
...were when she was one of two women graduating from Stanford University's law school in 1949 ("It was a bumper crop that year"). Nor do law firms now tell female applicants that "we just don't hire women; the secretaries might resent it," as one informed Orinda Evans, 38, now a federal district judge in Georgia, as recently as 1968. In addition, women no longer restrict themselves to the genteel specializations of real estate and probate law, as they did when former Watergate Prosecutor Jill Wine Banks finished Columbia Law School...
...Williams is constitutionally entitled if brought to trial. Williams' petition named, among others, Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson, Public Safety Commissioner Lee Brown, the three major TV networks, the New York Times and Post, and both the Associated Press and United Press International (TIME was not named). U.S. Judge Orinda Evans decided last week to consider Williams' petition in two separate hearings: one behind closed doors, for law enforcement defendants, the other open to the public, for defendants in the media...