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Around noon one day last June, an elderly woman was mugged in an alley in San Pedro, Calif. Shortly afterward, a witness saw a blonde girl, her pony tail flying, run out of the alley, get into a yellow car driven by a bearded Negro, and speed away. Police eventually arrested Janet and Malcolm Collins, a married couple who not only fitted the witness's physical description of the fugitive man and woman but also owned a yellow Lincoln. The evidence, though strong, was circumstantial. Was it enough to prove the Collinses guilty beyond a reasonable doubt...
...presenting his case, Prosecutor Sinetar stressed what he felt sure was already in the jurors' minds: the improbability that at any one time there could be two couples as distinctive as the Collinses in San Pedro in a yellow car. To "refine the jurors' thinking," Sinetar then explained how mathematicians calculate the probability that a whole set of possibilities will occur at once. Take three abstract possibilities (A, B, C), and assign to each a hypothetical probability factor. A, for example, may have a probability...
...trade. Up from Richmond (somebody is always coming up from Richmond) came Rookie Pitcher Mel Stottlemyre, 22, to win nine crucial games, including the eleventh in the Yank streak, a two-hit shutout during which he personally outdid Washington batsmen with five singles, two R.B.I.s. Over from Cleveland came Pedro Ramos, the Cuban "palm-bailer," meaning spit-bailer: he won one game and saved five others-including two against Cleveland last week...
There were seven children-Angelita, 40, Ramon, 39, Fidel, 37, Raul, 33, Juanita, 31, Emma, 29, Agustina, 25-and two others fathered by Angel during a first marriage, Pedro Emilio and Lidia, both fortyish. That first marriage was not ended by divorce until Lina had already borne Angel five children. Then, finally, Angel married her, despite his loud-spoken accusations that Raul had been sired by one of Lina's many other lovers. Neighbors remember that this gnawing suspicion later brought Angel to file, then cancel, a divorce suit. In the midst of such braying accusations and inconstancy, Fidel...
...army and air force were to invade, conquer and hold the "Independent Republic of Marquetalia," a 1,400-sq.-mi. enemy enclave deep in the Andean highlands 170 miles southwest of Bogotá. But this war is real, and so is Marquetalia. Colombians know it as the stronghold of Pedro Antonio Marín, 34, alias "Tiro Fijo" (Sure Shot), last of the country's bigtime bandit chieftains...