Word: raye
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More plausibly, Capote argued that a cheap crook with Ray's dismal record of bargain-basement villainy could not have traveled so far without extensive help from experts. In Capote's view, Ray was the low man in an elaborate and many-tiered plot-the pigeon paid to leave his fingerprints on a rifle and then decoy pursuers away from King's real assassin. The plotters allowed Ray to live, Capote hypothesized, because he had no knowledge of the conspiracy's inner core...
...case tend to discount such theories. A senior Justice Department lawyer is conducting an undercover search for leads to a plot among Memphis underworldlings, but local police and FBI agents-who first hunted the suspect as a member of a conspiracy-are working on the assumption that Ray, a known racist and always a loner in prison, killed alone...
Ironically, after skillfully eluding capture for so many weeks, Ray can be said to have botched his last getaway. He apparently left Lisbon in a hurry because he sensed that the police were on his trail. But under a 60-year-old treaty with the U.S., Portugal-which abolished the death penalty in 1867-will not extradite any criminal sought on a capital charge. Senhor Ray could have stayed there indefinitely...
What happened was that this guy they call El Cordobés, who is the bullfighting champion of Spain, sort of a Sugar Ray Robinson-type with flashy clothes and cars and goodness knows how many mill in the bank, was out there doing a fancy two-step with this bull about the size of a Volkswagen, when all of a sudden another guy climbed into the ring. His name was Miguelin; he was a rank contender, but he thought he ought to be champ. So what did Miguelin do? He strolled up to El Cordobés' bull...
Bizarre Scheme. Perutz studied molecular structure by analyzing X-ray photographs of crystallized hemoglobin. Scattered and deflected by the atoms within, the X-rays form a pattern of light and dark spots on a film behind the crystal. By patient mathematical analysis of thousands of variations of this pattern (each produced by a Perutz technique of substituting mercury "tag" atoms for different atoms within the hemoglobin molecule), the structure of the complex molecule was carefully pieced together...