Word: starrs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they give a good approximation of what the Beatles looked like. As Ringo Starr, Justin McNeill bobs his nose up and down convincingly. Leslie Fradkin as Harrison and Joe Pecorino as Lennon rely pretty much on their costumes and gestures for verisimilitude. But Mitch Weissman is a dead ringer for McCartney, not just in his stance and round face, but in the way he captures the pleasantly boyish manner in which Paul went about his stage business. Seated alone at the apron, accompanying himself on guitar, he sings Yesterday in a way that is totally unpretentious and touching...
...graduate student, who asked not to be identified, said yesterday Ellery Garage refunded $2 to him only after he contacted an investigator for the Department of Public Utilities. The investigator then called Ellery Garage president Roger Starr and instructed the towing company to refund the money. The investigator, Charles Ivers, confirmed the sequence of events yesterday...
Smuggling has long been a basic industry in Starr County-cotton during the Civil War, liquor during Prohibition, and in the last few years, Mexican narcotics. Ten to 20 tons of marijuana flow into the county each week, along with unknown amounts of heroin and cocaine. Almost daily, Mexican grass is trucked to the Rio Grande, loaded into sacks and placed on rafts or carried across the shallow river to Texas, only 40 yards away. Estimated value of the drug traffic: up to $5 million a week...
...Starr County drug trade has long been controlled by a few tightly-knit Mexican-American families who own land along the Rio Grande; in some cases, their relatives hold property on the Mexican side. For years they were virtually a law unto themselves. One of the indicted traffickers had even ordered auto license plates spelling out MAFIA. "They don't deal with anyone they don't trust," says Texas Antidrug Official Neal Duvall, "and they only trust family." According to a grand jury report, 10% to 35% of the population of Starr County have been involved...
...court system has not been much better. The last district judge responsible for the county was impeached by the state legislature and forced out of office in 1975 for using county property for personal purposes. "It has been rare to have a criminal case tried with a jury in Starr County," says Judge Joe Evins, who filled in for 16 months after the impeachment. "I could sense the reluctance of witnesses to testify." And with good reason. Five years ago, a local grand jury started to look into the drug traffic; after two girls who had testified were found floating...