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...three years. Last week they had won 33 games and lost 24 and with a third of the schedule remaining were just three games short of last season's victory total. It was also the worst of times. Pistons players were at Coach Herb Brown's throat, and at one point a player actually attacked him. Locker-room arguments were the norm; the bench had become a place to sulk, not sit. Detroit players surely lead the league in fines and angry demands to be traded somewhere, anywhere...
More problematical is the fratricide to which Constance Kent confessed in 1865. A plain girl evidently slated for spinsterhood, Constance had been blighted by a callous stepmother. At 16, Constance cut the throat of her 3½-year-old half brother with such violence that the head was nearly severed. She then stuffed the body into the family privy. When the judge passed the death sentence (later commuted to life), his voice choked with sobs, and a local paper reported that the jury and "the greater part of the assembly" wept over the severity of the verdict...
...Wichita, Kans., convicted Screw Magazine Publisher Al Goldstein of obscenity charges (the ruling was set aside because of prosecution misconduct, but he will be retried March 1). In Memphis, Porn Star Harry Reems is appealing an obscenity-conspiracy conviction last year for his role in the movie Deep Throat...
...these books. Author Rogers possesses theatrical flair and truly grand vulgarity. Her books are built, like action movies, from a rapid series of short, vivid scenes. Readers who do keep reading have no time to pause and reflect on the preposterousness of what is happening. Seized by the throat, the poor geese are force-fed events events events as the action mounts to a terrific climax in which lust sprouts little pink wings and Beauty fetters Beast with a golden wedding band . Brad Darrach...
...during the 1968 Democratic Convention. Chicago was swamped with protesters, and Daley's cops moved on them with clubs flying. In convention hall, Daley imperiously called the shots; when the proceedings offended him, the mayor cut off his mike and signaled adjournment by drawing a finger across his throat. With the party in shambles at the end of the convention, Daley tripped over his tongue defending his actions. "The police are not here to create disorder," he said, more aptly than he knew. "They are here to preserve disorder...