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...disputed that former San Francisco Supervisor Dan White took a snub-nosed revolver along when he went to call on Mayor George Moscone last November. Or that White slipped into city hall through a window to avoid the metal detector at the main entrance. Or that he pumped nine bullets into Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, killing them both. The only question for the jury at White's trial for murder was whether the defendant really knew what he was doing. At week's end, the jury was still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Getting Off? | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

...committee stalked out of the hearing to protest. That left Brown with the unhappy choice of testifying, and in the process alienating the state's Democratic leaders, or backing down and look ing foolish. Brown retreated. Said he: "I am not going to be a party to a snub of the Governor of New Hampshire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: April Fool! | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

Warren Zevon: Excitable Boy (Asylum). "Send lawyers, guns and money/ Dad, get me out of this." Snub-nose tales of blown chances, aching loss and creatures that prowl the night, fused into a perfect genre piece by the foremost exponent of hard-boiled rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: YEAR'S BEST | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

Bobby Allen kept the hoopsters in the game through the second half, in which he scored 12 of his 14 points. In a three minute span the snub-nosed junior scored on a pair of jumpers, a tip-in, and converted a three-point play to keep the Crimson tied at 64-64 with 9:35 left...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Wagner Downs Cagers, 82-73 | 12/15/1978 | See Source »

Within 35 minutes of the murders, White and his wife walked into a police station four blocks from city hall. It was, ironically, a station out of which White had once worked as a patrolman. He turned in a five-shot, snub-nosed Smith & Wesson Chiefs Special Revolver, nine expended shell casings and eight unexpended rounds of hollow-point ammunition. He spent some 90 minutes under questioning by homicide detectives, then was taken to an upstairs jail and booked. After visiting him there, Mrs. White left weeping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Another Day of Death | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

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