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...cars belonged to a Cleveland house painter, Paul Eugene Gilly, 37, who had come to Yablonski's home on Dec. 18, ostensibly to ask for help in getting a job in the mines. Local police turned the slain man's list of license plates over to the FBI, and last week Gilly and two others, Aubran Wayne Martin, 23, and Claude Edward Vealey, 26, were arrested in Cleveland and charged with shooting Yablonski, his wife and his daughter in their beds before dawn...
...spare time, he reads (lately Galbraith's Ambassador's Journal and Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich), watches news and sports on TV ("85% of the rest is junk"). Also, "I talk to my wife"-Lorraine Perigord, his third, an accomplished painter whom he married in 1955. Mike has a son by his first marriage, Chris, 22, who was a top reporter at the Harvard University radio station but went into newspapering and now covers city hall for the Boston Globe...
Gordon, a black journeyman painter, said that he had come to Harvard as a qualified painter and had been hired as a helper. "I spent eight hours a day doing exactly the same work as the painters," he said...
Gordon said that one white painter looking for a job had been told that there were no openings for helpers. Two weeks later, he said, two more black helpers were hired. "Harvard is hiring blacks for cheap labor," Gordon said...
Both he and Carol said that the helpers do the same work as the painters. "Any painter knows another painter," Carol said. "The helpers who are supposed to be assisting the painters are painting the same houses...