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...bench outside the county jail in Waukegan, Ill., last month, Attorney Charles Wilson tried to console Roger Hubbard, 36. Hubbard's wife Carol, 30, who was five months pregnant, was being held in jail on charges stemming from a shoplifting case, and Hubbard could not afford the $23,000 bail. Wilson explained that since he had defended a man charged in the same case, it would be a conflict of interest for him to represent Carol. How, then, to get her out of jail...
Bradbury began writing science fiction as a teen-ager in Waukegan, Ill. But it was not until François Truffaut filmed Fahrenheit 451 in 1966 that he was widely saluted as one of the masters of the genre. "My life has been full of myths," says Bradbury, whose fiction often suggests an amalgam of the classic fables, Frank Baum's Oz books and Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio...
...second largest U.S. city, California's boosters bragged in the '60s that Los Angeles County had more residents than Chicago's Cook County. Chicagoans windily replied that they had a more populous "consolidated metropolitan area," which they reckoned as stretching 54 miles along Lake Michigan, from Waukegan, Ill., to Hammond, Ind. Not so, said the Angelenos, who defined their "consolidated area" as including five contiguous counties of Southern California. Now, according to preliminary census figures, the argument seems to be over: Los Angeles may have gained 73,000 residents in the '70s for a total...
...hollow victory." A majority of Carter's 23 delegates in Kansas were expected to follow the Governor's call for an open convention, although still supporting the President for renomination. In Illinois, which has Carter's largest delegation (his edge is 163 to 16 over Kennedy), Waukegan Mayor Bill Morris estimated that 25% were waffling on the Carter ticket and that another 25% would switch if they could find an alternative to Kennedy; up to 40 delegates now support the open convention idea. If Carter abandoned the rules fight, Morris predicted...
...Because three of the town's main industries-outboard motors, auto parts and home-building materials-have been among the hardest hit by the current recession, the rate continues to rise. Mercury Marine, the nation's second largest outboard-engine maker (after Outboard Marine of Waukegan, Ill.), has fired or furloughed 1,150 of some 2,600 workers at its local plant. Cutbacks have also taken place at Wells Manufacturing Corp., a maker of auto-ignition parts, Sterling Custom Homes Corp., a producer of prefab dwellings, and Combination Door Co., which turns out components for houses. Ray Wittkop...