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...three years as New York State's special prosecutor, tough, single-minded Maurice Hyman Nadjari has been both praised and damned for his relentless crusade against official corruption. To his defenders he was upright, honest and dedicated in his pursuit of larcenous cops, politicians, judges and even fellow prosecutors. To his detractors he was unorthodox, ruthless, overzealous, tyrannical and inept. Last week, in a meeting that lasted less than three minutes, New York Governor Hugh Carey told Nadjari to clean out his desk. For Carey, who is thought to be eying a spot on trie Democratic national ticket...
...bullet exited from Kennedy's neck, grazing the left side of his tie knot. How then could it strike the right side of Connally? Only, scoffs Wecht, by "making an acute right turn in mid-air." That might be true if both Kennedy and Connally were seated stiffly upright and facing straight ahead at the time Kennedy was first hit. But there are no photos of this precise moment. Before the sign obscured him, Kennedy was last seen in the film to have been waving; Connally is shown turning to his right as he emerges from behind the sign...
...well as for Western Islands. Interior decoration consists of the original paintings that were reproduced on the cover of American Opinion. Most are either portraits--Chaing Kai-Shek, Ian Smith, Gen. Curtis Lemay, Gen. Douglas MacArthur--or scenes of American life, as Birchers view it: anxious mothers seeing upright young men off to war, congregational picnics after church on Sundays, flags everywhere...
...Sitting upright in a large wooden chair, she can see the vegetable garden sprawled three stories below her. When she reaches a stand-still in her writing, she will sometimes ponder the remains of life in the garden--or she will turn from the window and pace slowly around the large room. But she is a disciplined woman who leads a supremely organized life, and she does not spend much time pacing and gazing, even when afflicted with writers block. She will simply walk toward a little doorway in the far corner, pass through a tiny bathroom, and emerge...
Close Kin. If the bones do indeed belong to a true Homo, they provide one more link in a growing chain of evidence that indicates man's direct ancestors were stalking Africa's savannas-walking upright, perhaps hunting and using tools-as long as 4 million years ago. In 1972, following in his parents' footsteps, Richard Leakey discovered a nearly complete manlike skull at nearby Lake Rudolf in Kenya that is at least 2.6 million years old. More recently, Carl Johanson of Cleveland's Case Western Reserve University, digging in Ethiopia's bleak Awash Valley...