Word: starley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...citizens that the county seat of Mentone (pop. 50) was once suggested as the ideal place to get an impartial jury for Jack Ruby. Just how miserable that move would have made Loving was made clear in a rare order just handed down by State District Judge J. H. Starley. Confronted with a troublesome property deed case in Mentone, Judge Starley counted up Loving's grand total of 80 qualified jurors and banished the case to another county on the unusual ground that he could not possibly muster a Loving jury "without completely closing down the economic life...
Rover was founded in 1878 by two engineers, John Kemp Starley and William Sutton, who invented the modern bicycle with equal-sized wheels and chain-driven rear wheel that soon replaced the old penny-farthing cycles on English highways and byways. In 1904 Rover turned to making well-crafted autos, then in wartime 1940 made Britain's first jet engine for aircraft. Rover was also the world's first automaker to produce an experimental jet-powered auto, though it has not proved so usefully down to earth as the firm's tough and dependable Land-Rover...
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