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...Queens housewife, to employment as a professional baseball umpire. Two years ago Mrs. Gera won a contract to serve as an umpire in the Class A New York-Pennsylvania League. But before she could harness up to call her first game, her contract was declared "disapproved and invalid" by Phillip Piton, president of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues...
...entrusted with a constitutional stewardship--will hold the President to the appropriate standards in considering confirmation. Derrick A. Bell, Jr. Gary Bellow Harold J. Berman Abram Chayes Morris L. Cohen Vern Countryman Jerome P. Facher Richard H. Field William B. Gould Charles M. Haar Livingston Hall David R. Herwitz Phillip B. Heymann Morton J. Horwitz Benjamin Kaplan Lance Liebman Louis Loss Karen S. Metzger Frank I. Michelman Arthur R. Miller Charles R. Nesson Albert M. Sacks Frank E.A. Sander Austin W. Scott Henry J. Steiner John P. Sullivan Stanley S. Surrey Donald T. Trautman Laurence H. Tribe Donald F. Turner...
...upper floor. The first day, convicts released Quinn and 11 other guards and civilians so that they could get medical help. After being stripped, the remaining guards were given inmate clothing, blankets and even mattresses (which convicts in the rain-soaked yard did not have) to sleep on. Guard Phillip Watkins, 33, said that convicts at first kicked him and broke his arm. But another prisoner called them off. Later he was addressed as "sir," given cigarettes, hot meals and snuff, and a prison doctor was allowed to treat his arm. What he found particularly terrifying was not the convicts...
During the attack, many of the terrified hostages, blindfolded and resigned to death blows from their executioners, were blissfully surprised. Phillip ("Curly") Watkins had been talking to his captor. "I asked him if he knew a buddy of mine. He said he did, and then I said, 'Well, then you know who I am.' " When the helicopters moved in, Watkins' man shoved him to the ground and fell on top of him. "The guy had time to kill me, but he didn't," said Watkins...
...even worse movie, The Love Machine, based on an even better seller by Jacqueline Susann, charts the rise and fall of a libidinous television executive. Robin Stone (John Phillip Law) is first discovered broadcasting the local news by his boss's wife (Dyan Cannon), who has a kind of pelvic instinct for talent. She passes some heavy hints along to hubby (Robert Ryan), who sees Stone as the right man to boost the ratings.When hubby suffers his executive coronary, Stone slips right into his chair and his bed. His insatiable and some-what kinky appetites, however, get him into...