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...settlements included a $1.75 million payment to a 55-year-old woman who was shot in the stomach during a 1981 drug raid on her Lake Sherwood ranch and a $500,000 payment to a former movie-studio employee who suffered back injuries and was disabled after he was allegedly kicked by a deputy sheriff for failing to follow instructions promptly when stopped for a traffic violation in Marina del Rey in 1982. In 1983 Charles Porter and his wife were leaving a restaurant in City of Commerce when they were detained by deputies investigating what turned...
...small boy has witnessed the killing, and he knows who pulled the trigger: his father. On the Western plains, a frightened woman leaves her husband and four young children. He tracks her down, and she relents as "her body starts flowing toward the baby." A man returns to the ranch where his mother has married a drunken old farmhand and finds she has done the right thing. In a Father's Place (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 214 pages; $18.95) is filled with such surprises, along with a profound sense of place, character and incident. Christopher Tilghman's first book announces...
What often passes for Asian ghettos bustle with the pride and promise of middle-class America with an exotic cast. Churches hold services in English -- and Korean, Chinese and Tagalog. The curved eaves of Buddhist temples share suburbia with the flat roofs of ranch-style homes. Asian shopping malls are stocked with everything from disposable diapers to dried sea cucumbers that sell for up to $1,000 per lb. Signs in English and Spanish compete with those in the Korean Hankul alphabet and in Chinese ideograms. When Roman letters appear, they are often tricked out in the rococo accents...
...whom are elderly -- don't have cars. When they want to get out of Bishop, they go down to the terminal and take the 1:30 p.m. Greyhound to Los Angeles (6 1/2 hours southwest, $35.50) or the midnight run to Reno (5 hours northeast, $19.95). "Without Greyhound," says ranch hand Luis Perez, "I am a prisoner here...
Williams, 58, is a shrewd businessman who grew up on a cattle ranch at Fort Stockton and built a $250 million empire in oil, gas, ranching, banking and communications. He boasts that his business endeavors have created jobs for 100,000 Texans. "I'm a survivor of the oil patch," he tells crowds. "Rebuilding is my purpose. Let's make Texas great again." On the stump at tamale feeds and rodeos, the candidate embellishes his message, bear-hugging his way through crowds, pecking women on the cheek and grabbing a guitar to warble a Mexican ballad. "Look...