Word: proved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decade, James Earl Ray has claimed that new evidence would nullify his own confession and prove his innocence of the murder of Martin Luther King-if only he could present it at a trial. For more than a year, staff members of the House Select Committee on Assassinations have hinted that they were developing evidence of a conspiracy to murder King. But when the imprisoned killer and the committee finally faced each other in a dramatic televised public hearing last week, Ray stood convicted as convincingly as ever of being the lone gunman who had stalked his prey across three...
...acres of maple and other hardwood forests in the state of Vermont. Yet Vermont foresters consider themselves fortunate. Some mysterious disease seems to be killing off the caterpillars-bugs eating bugs-and earlier estimates that the damage would spread to some 100,000 acres may not prove true...
...Hemingway, eldest son of Ernest and an ex-stockbroker, spent 15 days in Venezuela to co-star in an upcoming ABC documentary about the people and wildlife in the jungle. "I was the first white woman in the Indian camp," she says. "They wanted to touch my breasts to prove I wasn't a man." They did-and sure enough, she wasn...
...finding NBC and KRON-TV guilty, he told Judge Robert Dossee, "I'll pack up my briefcase and go home. I'd have to be idiotic to bring such a case." Siding with NBC, Dossee proceeded to send Lewis packing; since Lewis admitted that he could not prove incitement, the case was dismissed. Said Lewis, who is planning an appeal on the ground that Dossee erred by defining the terms of the trial so narrowly: "We will be using the First Amendment as a sword to kill off the minds of our youngsters. Our noses are rubbed...
...come to look like the personification of an aging bard. His unruly hair had whitened into a mane, and his face bore lines and wrinkles beyond the mere ravages of time. In "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley" (1920) Pound had praised "the obscure reveries of the inward gaze." As these pictures prove, it became his characteristic expression...