Word: tires
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vineyard near Monterey, and in the Alexander Valley she was led on a midnight tour through the century-old Simi winery. "Usually I feel thoroughly satiated with a subject toward the end of our assignment," she says. "Not with wine. I could file on it every week and never tire...
...York Lawyer John Humes, Ambassador to Austria since October 1969; Leonard K. Firestone, president of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. of California; and DeWitt and Lila Wallace, co-chairmen of the Reader's Digest...
...hereditary blood disease resulting in deficient synthesis of hemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying component of blood. Their condition causes cardiac and other complications that kill most of its victims in their teen-age years. The pale, often undersized youngsters may have bone deformities and enlarged spleens and livers; they tire easily and frequently miss school...
...case against him soon proved to be less than ironclad. The prosecution admitted that some bodies had been improperly labeled, and no one could tell which had been found where. Blood samples taken from knives belonging to Corona were too fragmentary to be connected with the victims. Tire tracks at one gravesite were said by police to have come from one of Corona's trucks, until experts belatedly reported that their tracks did not match. No effort was made to take fingerprints from cigarette butts found near the graves. Officials even cut fingertips off some corpses to preserve fingerprints...
...Judge Patton excoriated the prosecution for what "almost approaches dereliction of duty. I just don't understand how [the case] could have been prepared in this manner." Then Prosecutor Williams claimed he no longer had reasonable doubt, partly because he had just found that he really did have tire tracks that matched Corona's truck after all; the correct tire-track specimen had simply been mislaid. "I am almost incredulous," exploded Patton...