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...Charles Manson, Lieut, William Calley, Richard "Chicago Nurse" Speck. Charles "Texas Tower" Whitman, and Albert "Boston Strangler" DeSolve...
...Hannifin found himself invited to West Virginia by a munitions merchant to try his hand at firing M-16s and Uzis. "I didn't shoot badly," he reports, "perhaps because I remembered what my old rifle-team instructor at Boise, Idaho, high school taught me. I put a speck of cigarette tobacco in my shooting eye to help with the windage...
...Kitt Peak team decided to turn the "fly's eye" effect to its advantage. Keeping the exposures short froze the specks onto the plate before they were lost. Using that strategy gave the Kitt Peak astronomers much more information about the star than they could gather from a normal exposure. Each of the specks contains different information, like a peak or valley in the wavy sound track of a phonograph record; only when these bits of information are added together does the total information-in this case, a picture of a star-actually emerge. To analyze and combine...
...said the theory first appeared in 1965 when Patricia Jacobs found a higher than expected number of XYY males in a Scotch institution for the criminally insane. He said the idea spread when Richard Speck killed eight student nurses in Chicago in 1966, and the press incorrectly reported that...
...Mitchell-Stans jurors have already been sequestered. But "in this instance it's like locking the barn door after the horse walked out whistling Yankee-Doodle," says Donald Albanito, a dean at Illinois' Bradley University, who was sequestered in the 1967 trial of Murderer Richard Speck. Moreover, Albanito wonders "whether being immersed every day in questions of alleged political intrigues may not so depress the jurors that they would be willing to believe anything evil about everyone involved. I think people get a better view of the world sitting at home than they do locked up with eleven...