Word: pets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stories of judicial arrogance are commonplace. When a Japanese-American lawyer requested additional tune for a trial, a federal judge responded: "How much time did you give us at Pearl Harbor?" Former Los Angeles Municipal Court Judge Noel Cannon, who painted her chambers pink, kept a pet Chihuahua by her side and was called the "Dragon Lady," once threatened to give a traffic officer "a vasectomy with a .38." While hearing a voting rights case brought by blacks in Alabama in the '60s, Federal Judge William Harold Cox exclaimed, "Who is telling these people that they can get in there...
...mission on the road, traveling 5,500 miles to nine stops and back to Washington in four days, from Chicago to Pine Bluff, Ark. (100°), to Dallas and Harlingen, Texas (103°), to Fresno, Calif. (106°). Scheduled weeks ago, the tour was originally intended to tout such pet projects as a self-help volunteer fair and a community health center and to raise funds for her husband's reelection. But after the recent maelstrom, reported TIME Correspondent Johanna McGeary, the trip turned into a roving revival meeting intended to restore America's lapsed faith in Carter...
...shipped a 4,000-lb. "Pet Rock" to John. John returned with ten tons of happy birthday pebbles and a message: "The 'Pet Rock' was pregnant. Now you take care of the kids." Two weeks ago, 4,000 Ibs. of manure were dumped on John's lawn, courtesy of Sam. Said the accompanying sign: THE BABY ROCKS YOU SENT WERE NOT HOUSEBROKEN...
...PROJECT CALCULATES the application of available solar technology could provide 7 to 23 per cent of the United States' energy needs by the year 2000. The Project is not referring to massive, multibillion dollar power stations in space which beam electricity back to earth via microwave (a NASA pet project): rather, it is talking about solar house and hot water heating, windmills, wood burning and hydraulic power. Modeste A. Maidique, assistant professor at the Business School, writes...
Director Ridley Scott stretches the movie out with assorted idiotic red herrings, the crew taking time out battling the monster to look for the ship's pet cat, Jonesy. As for the undulating ectoplasm known as the alien, you wonder why the crew isn't wearing lobster bibs. Somebody clearly had a good time putting it together--pouring on the blood, slime, and animal intestines--but the fun as all his. Actually, in its last scene the alien does exude a little personality, curled up in the corner of a space shuttle cleaning itself off, smacking its lips, coming...