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Fishing. Most prosecutors are understandably eager to make use of the grand jury's investigative powers. Robert Mardian, chief of the Justice Department's Internal Security Division, has said that grand juries in pursuit of wrongdoers "can run their tail off." Which is precisely what bothers many critics. Particularly in cases with political implications-like the Pentagon papers investigation-the Government, say some legal experts, does indeed use the grand jury to run the tail off assorted dissenters, either for pure harassment or as part of "a fishing expedition" to see what unexpected information the questioning may turn...
...story goes, Niven was racing Zanuck for the ball. Suddenly his horse stretched ahead, sank his teeth into the seat of Zanuck's breeches and held on. Niven made a wild swing at the ball but missed. Next thing he knew his stick was clamped beneath the tail of Zanuck's pony. Attached tooth and tail, the "horrible triangle" galloped past the stands. "I was not," Niven reports soberly, "invited to play polo with Zanuck again...
...naked nymph pulling a kangaroo's tail? Or was she really pulling a million Australian legs...
Within minutes, a 740 m.p.h. Czechoslovak air force MIG 17 was on his tail. When the pilot fired a poorly aimed cannon burst, Bezak turned and put the Zlin into a steep 4,000-ft. dive. As G forces slapped his sons against the cockpit canopy, his wife Marie, 27, shouted, "It's all up! We'd better go back." Instead, Bezak watched as the MIG frantically circled to make another firing run, and banked the plane as if he were obeying the air force pilot's unmistakable signal to return. Suddenly, Bezak turned again and slipped...
...what he was about. He ordered the plane to be flown at less than 10,000 ft. and at 200 m.p.h., an extremely slow cruising speed. He also ordered the rear door to be left unlocked. Of all U.S. commercial airliners, only the 727 has a door beneath the tail that would permit a reasonably safe parachute jump. Then he locked Miss Mucklow in the forward cabin with the crew, and was not seen again. Five planes trailed the jet from Seattle, but no one saw the hijacker jump. If he fell free in the dark for more than...