Word: raying
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What does James Earl Ray really know about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.? The question arises with new urgency because Ray, 68--who pleaded guilty to the murder, got sentenced without a trial to 99 years in prison and then recanted his confession--is in failing health. Over the years he has dropped mysterious hints that King's murder was a conspiracy. Unless he talks soon, whatever information he has will go with him to his grave. That's why King's family last week joined Ray's long-standing campaign to have his day in court...
...never been one for conspiracy theories, but the King murder is one case that needs reopening. The official story put together by the FBI--that Ray acted alone--is just too flaky. I've never understood how a bumbling petty crook like Ray, who was once nabbed by police as he re-entered the window of a business he had just robbed to steal a few more items, could singlehandedly evade a police dragnet in Memphis, Tennessee, drive a conspicuous white Mustang all the way to Atlanta, then get out of the country and journey as far as Portugal before...
...Their primary concern was my immediate well-being," Sauer explains. "The X-ray they did when I first went in didn't show a break, so at that point there was no need for an MRI. It just wasn't a major ligament...
Hockey East vs. ECAC--Tyson vs. Sugar Ray Leonard...
...beat all others. "Your New York," he told the press, "is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses modern thinking in its architecture, its life, its spirit"--everything but its art, which Dada would supply. This image of the city as social compressor also comes out in Man Ray's neatly epigrammatic New York, 1917--a bunch of slats, stacked to mimic the setbacks of skyscrapers, held together by a C clamp...