Word: prowlers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...restless political prowler, John Connally hates to be out of the center of the action. In his riverboat-gambler style he continues to calculate his chances to become President. "Right now," he says, "there's room for only two men on the court, Ford and Reagan. But if one of them is eliminated, it's an entirely different situation for me. I'm watching it closely...
...injured prowler sued the farm owners, Edward Briney and his wife, for $60,000; a jury awarded him half his claim. lowans were incredulous, but last week the state's supreme court upheld the verdict. "The primary issue," said the court in an 8-to-l decision, "is whether an owner may protect personal property in a boarded-up farmhouse by a spring gun capable of inflicting death or serious injury." It is an accepted rule that deadly force may not generally be used to protect property unless it is also necessary for self-defense. Since...
...description of last night's prowler resembles that of the armed rapist who entered Radcliffe dormitories...
Harrison believed that the prowler might have entered through the front door when a dorm resident came in or left. Rumors that the man was later seen in Holmes basement and in Comstock appear to have been erroneous...
...suburb last week, the death of a junior high student delivering newspapers brought the statistics to life. A single blast from a shotgun pointed at the predawn shadows killed 13-year-old Todd McKinney. The college student who shot him thought Todd's footsteps might belong to a prowler making a fifth attempt to tamper with the family's 1964 Comet. McKinney had planned to contribute his October earnings to the re-election campaign of Senator Joseph Tydings-because Tydings has been an outspoken champion of tighter gun laws...