Word: roberson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...future hinges entirely on what an Alaskan jury decides took place on the night of March 23. Was Hazelwood drunk? He has admitted drinking just two beers over a five-hour period in the town of Valdez before boarding the ship. At least one barmate, Radio Electronics Officer Joel Roberson, contends that Hazelwood was drinking a "clear" beverage that was probably vodka. Still, his companions agree that Hazelwood did not consume an excessive amount of alcohol while ashore...
Like other addicts, birders can let their work slip. Don Roberson, a well- known California birder, dropped his law practice at the age of 29 to follow the birds, though he has since relapsed and returned to work. Like ski bums, some talented young birders take low-level jobs as clerks or night watchmen, thus saving their major energies for the chase...
Sometimes, like Goetz, these potential victims make headlines by lashing out at their tormentors. When Laird Roy Roberson, 29, looked out of his Houston apartment window at 11:30 p.m. on Jan. 23 and saw two men and a woman trying to break into his car, he picked up a .22-cal. rifle and fired seven shots, killing Darrel York, 18, and wounding Jerome Marshall, 19. A grand jury decided that Roberson had committed no crime...