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...back around Christmas, Drag Racer Don Garlits called a major tire company to ask if it could make him a tricycle-size front tire capable of running the quarter mile in 5.4 sec. at a top speed of, oh, 275 m.p.h. The tire company said it would have to get back to him. In July, maybe...
...buttocks. He selects a recipient for his gifts and tracks her down to her door. He knocks and keeps knocking, asking for one small moment, pliss. If you've glanced at his wares and found them resistible, lock the door and don't answer. In time he will tire of your silly intransigence and go on to offer his golden moments at another door...
...irrigation ditch behind her home, a pair of scissors embedded in her throat, her shorts and underpants slit open. Within hours police arrested Booker T. Hillery Jr., a local black ranch hand already on parole from an earlier rape conviction. Circumstantial physical evidence, including his belt and tire prints from his car, was found near the scene of the crime. Hillery insisted on his innocence, but a jury found him guilty of murder, and he was sentenced to death...
...complains Kings County District Attorney Robert Maline. "For a jury to base credibility on old court transcripts is difficult." As many as nine key witnesses may have died since the original trial. Others have moved away. Old pieces of evidence, like the belt, the scissors and the tire track photographs, will have to be dug out of storage. Worse, although the Supreme Court's Miranda decision was not handed down until four years after the killing, local rulings on its retroactive application may permit Hillery's attorney to exclude statements made by his client after his arrest. Stiffer modern rules...
...early years of the century, Los Angeles had more than 1,000 miles of urban rail lines, more than any other U.S. city. By 1961, the trains were defeated by freeways and the conscious effort of auto, tire and oil companies to cripple rail transit, for which they were convicted in court. The new rail project, financed by adding .5% to the area's existing 6% sales tax, will share much of the right-of-way of the old system. The first passengers will board in 1989, and by the year 2000, says the Los Angeles County transportation commission...