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...time for the Jim McKay 11 o'clock roundup--corral the heifers, clam, the dogies, make one last summary plea'to the jury, drive our moral home so the Baptist preachers down in Dry Prong. Louisiana don't immolate the album when we get it released...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: "I Got Bit by a Seeing-eye Dog" | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...feels trapped in his job, but he's the only one to force a way out. The Jewish pastry maker (Ken Levy) strolling on the rims of his feet with the tipsy gait of a fat man, spits out a profane nightmare in response to Peter's plea for a dream: "When the world is full of kitchens, you get pigs." But the pastry cook meekly figures someone has to roll out dough, assemble cars and take coal from the ground, anyway. The Kitchen's Italian cook will be all right as long as he can change women every month...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Can't Stand the Heat | 3/16/1976 | See Source »

...pictures, testified that the exclusion was "inadvertent." He added that Hall did not seem to be covering Patty but was aiming her gun at the teller's windows. New photographs, including Hall, were shown to the jury, but Judge Carter denied the defense's plea to dismiss the indictments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: The Plodder Scores Off the Idol | 3/15/1976 | See Source »

...thought if he could swing a few faculty votes to his side he might ultimately prevail," the friend says. Pavlovich apparently realized plea bargaining was out of the question. He was "acutely aware that his was a precedent-setting case for loan fraud cases," the friend who spoke to him says, adding that Spiro "thinks he's got the whole world against...

Author: By Jonathan H. Alter, | Title: A Rose by Any Other Name | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

...School, Spiro was in Massachusetts General Hospital, suffering from emotional stress. He emerged in time for a court appearance last month, pleading "Not Guilty," and the court appointed a psychiatrist to examine him. Pretrial motions are in the offing, and Spiro-watchers are betting on a temporary insanity plea. No one knows for sure, of course, because his lawyer William P. Homans '41 is mum on the question...

Author: By Jonathan H. Alter, | Title: A Rose by Any Other Name | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

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