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...case began in August 1982, when Geter was arrested by police investigating a rash of armed robberies in the Dallas suburbs and nearby Greenville, a community of 22,000, whose main street until 16 years ago boasted a sign reading THE BLACKEST LAND-THE WHITEST PEOPLE. Geter was an unlikely suspect. An engineering graduate of South Carolina State College, he had arrived in Greenville earlier in the year, one of six young blacks recruited by E-Systems, a large military and electronics contractor. A softspoken, nonsmoking teetotaler, he earned an annual salary of $24,000 and had a reputation among...
Called to Harvard because of the recent rash of sickness at Winthrop House. Sanitary Inspector Peter F Connolly this week reported six violations, including unkempt employees bathrooms and "blistering and flacking" ceilings in the central kitchen tunnels...
...rash of robberies is especially disruptive in a nation like Brazil, where few people use credit cards, and utility bills and taxes cannot be paid by mail. Frustrated law-enforcement officials blame the courts for not keeping bank robbers behind bars. At the same time, however, many officials agree that the problem is rooted in Sāo Paulo's rampant unemployment and the low wages that are symptoms of Brazil's ailing economy. "We've had an awesome demographic explosion, with people flooding into the big cities looking for gold in the streets," said Jorge Miguel...
Despite the rash of mishaps and irritations, the scientist-astronauts seemed pleased with the gleaming celestial laboratory. Said Lichtenberg, a biomedical engineer from M.I.T.: "It's just an amazing vehicle. Spacelab lives up to all its expectations." In one experiment involving a pallet instrument called a spectrophotometer, the scientists succeeded in making the first measurements of deuterium, a heavy form of hydrogen, in the upper atmosphere. By such observations, scientists can study weather patterns on earth. They can also explore the history of distant worlds, since the presence of large quantities of deuterium is a sign that a planet...
...shot a juvenile in Belfast, Northern Ireland; the story was proved to contain other factual errors. Daly acknowledged that he had changed details in a number of other columns, but contended, in classic "New Journalism" fashion, that altering the facts had not impaired his rendition of the truth. The rash of fraud infected the New York Times seven months later, when its Sunday magazine published a report from Cambodia by Freelancer Christopher Jones. In fact, Jones had written the story while at his home in Spain and for part of it had plagiarized a 1930 novel, André Malraux...