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They are called "clients," but that is just a euphemism. They are the handicapped people of Yuba and Sutler counties in California-some mentally retarded, some emotionally disturbed, some former drug addicts-handicapped but not helpless. To assist those who wanted to work, concerned local citizens established in 1969 a federally subsidized training center called Gateway Project. There the clients learn some basic skills. They assemble kits of electric rods for a utility company's field linemen; they reupholster chairs for nearby military bases; they tie together stalks of wheat for a local florist who sells dried flowers...
...Angeles, had to admit once again that it had no idea where Patty Hearst was. Guards along both the Mexican and Canadian borders were on the alert for the trio. The key problem was that the authorities did not know what happened after Patty and the Harrises abandoned Frank Sutler's car near Griffith Park on the day of the shootings. "We're looking like hell," said William Sullivan, FBI chief in the city, "but we don't know how they departed the area." The last reliable sighting of the threesome was on May 19 in Sherman...
...fact, Richard Hawk, 40, an aggressive defense attorney from the San Francisco area, not only entered a not-guilty plea but sued Sutler County for $350 million (twice its assessed valuation) for slander and false arrest. The entire investigation, Hawk insisted, had been "thoroughly bungled...
...infra-red camera to detect buried decomposing bodies. By week's end two more corpses had been found near the banks of the Feather River; the total stood at 25. The only suspect in the case, Juan Corona, 37, a taciturn farm-labor contractor, was arraigned in Sutler County Courthouse and charged with ten counts of murder (he will be charged with more when the remaining bodies are identified). He remained calm; in his behalf, his lawyer pleaded not guilty to each of the charges...
...wr50te the U.S.'s first authoritative mariner's manual. Did he look like a rollicking seafarer or a pinch-faced accountant? How pretty was Charlotte Cushman, the American stage's most beguiling actress of the 1840s?Gold was first discovered in California at Sutler's Mill, but who was this German-born idealist, John A. Sutter? And what was his appearance after the gold rush had, paradoxically enough, ruined...