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Repeat Defense. In the six-week retrial just ended, the gut issue was the claim of unconsciousness, despite new testimony for the prosecution that as Newton was being driven to the hospital for treatment, he waved a pistol and boasted of "shooting two dudes." Defense Attorney Charles R. Garry produced two doctors who testified that a man in a state of shock, as he could be from abdominal wounds, might not know what he was doing. Mrs. Henderson says she was swayed by this evidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: Hung Jury for Huey | 8/23/1971 | See Source »

...Stewardess Idie Concepcion, 21, noticed that the passenger was sweating profusely and acting nervous. She was about to report him to the pilot as a possible hijacker when the young man, Rich ard Allen Obergfell, 26, of New York City, grabbed her by the neck and, with an automatic pistol at her back, forced her toward the cockpit. He told the captain, Albert Hawes: "Take this plane to Milan. Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SKYJACKING: Death at the Terminal | 8/2/1971 | See Source »

...three steps away from her. FBI Agent Kenneth Lovin, who had been tracking Obergfell in his hairline sight from about 75 yds. away, fired. The first bullet slammed into the skyjacker's right shoulder and came out the left. He dropped to the ground, scrabbling to reach his pistol, and Lovin put a second bullet through his stomach, killing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SKYJACKING: Death at the Terminal | 8/2/1971 | See Source »

...seemed like I'd always pass women returning home with the groceries," he recalls. Borrowing a pair of track shoes, he started working out late at night at a nearby outdoor track. He practiced alone in the dark with no coach, no blocks and no starter's pistol. "It's unsafe," he says, "to practice with a gun in Baltimore after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Dr. Meriwether Saga | 7/12/1971 | See Source »

First of all, Outfielder Alex Johnson claimed that Teammate Chico Ruiz pulled a gun on him in the clubhouse. Chico answered that he doesn't own even a cap pistol, much less a .38. Then Los Angeles Times Columnist John Hall revealed that at least three players have been "carrying guns and several others are known to have hidden knives-to use as protection in case of fights among themselves." Hall went on to report that several Angels openly considered ailing Outfielder Tony Conigliaro "a malingering misfit." Recently, they are said to have shown their contempt by laying Tony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Alex and the Angry Angels | 6/28/1971 | See Source »

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