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...Mary Ann Clemens, a septuagenarian, admitted that she had lost control of her car and run down a neighbor while he was out for a stroll. The neighbor, Arthur McCall, suffered a separated shoulder and nerve injuries to a hand. He sued for damages. Up to that point it was a routine case. But no sooner had the lawyers presented their opening arguments before the common pleas court of Sandusky, Ohio, than a recess was called and two 18-in. TV screens were set up. After that, the twelve jurors simply sat back, stared at the tube...
...crisp November afternoon, Kent State University resembles any other thriving Midwestern campus. Hirsute young men and their long-haired girl friends, identically dressed in blue jeans and peacoats, stroll hand in hand across a snow-covered reach of lawn. Their path is interrupted by bulldozed mud trails, wire fences and spools of cable, the debris of new campus construction...
...powers since early 1968, when he declared a state of emergency after a series of student and worker strikes. He instituted unlimited search and seizure, froze wages and prices (violators face summary arrest) and imposed press censorship. Motorists are routinely stopped at roadblocks and a Montevidean out for a stroll may be stopped several times with demands that he show his documents. Last July, Congress voted to lift the siege; Pacheco reimposed it a few hours later...
...should have been elementary, but it did not turn out that way. Just a short stroll from 221B Baker Street, London, where Sherlock Holmes once dwelt, a bold gang broke through the floor of a closed handbag shop, dug a 40-ft. tunnel, and cut through two feet of concrete into a vault containing about 1,000 safe-deposit boxes in Lloyds Bank at 185 Baker Street. It was a case similar to the episode in which Holmes captured two tunneling bank crooks in A. Conan Doyle's The Red-Headed League -"a three-pipe problem," as Dr. Watson...
...been through this before. Fasten your seat belts." The order was unnecessary; the chopper carrying the Senator and wife Joan Kennedy to a meeting with Defense Minister Moshe Dayan made a safe emergency landing on a beach south of Tel Aviv, giving the Kennedys an opportunity to stroll around and collect sea shells. Said the unflustered Joan: "It's nice to have the unexpected privacy...