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Around noon one day last June, an elderly woman was mugged in an alley in San Pedro, Calif. Shortly afterward, a witness saw a blonde girl, her pony tail flying, run out of the alley, get into a yellow car driven by a bearded Negro, and speed away. Police eventually arrested Janet and Malcolm Collins, a married couple who not only fitted the witness's physical description of the fugitive man and woman but also owned a yellow Lincoln. The evidence, though strong, was circumstantial. Was it enough to prove the Collinses guilty beyond a reasonable doubt...
...downs,' " she bellows. "I just want 'ups' and 'ups' and 'ups.' " Even Snoopy-whom Short sees as a kind of Christ figure, a hound of heaven alternately threatening to run away with Linus' blanket and offering to Charlie Brown a tail-wagging friendship-is obsessed with a "weed-claustrophobia" that makes him a less than desirable outfielder, a fallible catcher...
...first touch of the hook, enraged steelies will "tail-walk" like marlin, leap like tarpon 5 ft. above the water, run like bonefish-stripping 150 yds. of line off a screaming reel in one lightning burst. They have even been known to rush a boat and leap over the fisherman's head in a frantic effort to escape. The battle may last anywhere from 15 min. to an hour-and steelies get more tricky as they tire. Then they will bulldog to the river bottom and jam their heads in the gravel until the hook rubs...
...commuter! You should run a story pointing out the woes of us taxpaying, straphanging, deficit-burdened, tail-crushed 8-to-6 slobs...
...raucous, and more than a little disappointed in spite of itself. One rarely smells good luck in the bustle, and never fullfillment. But stimulation, hope, excitement, yes, if sometimes of a baleful, hopped-up variety. Manhattan seems often like an exhausted animal on No-Doze, chasing its own tail...