Word: weeding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Francisco suburb of Hillsborough took on a grim order. The 15 rooms, many of them decorated with antiques from the fabled San Simeon mansion of Patricia's grandfather William Randolph Hearst, were filled with agonized friends and family. Among them were Patricia's four sisters and her fiance Stephen Weed, 26, who had been badly beaten by the kidnapers. FBI agents set up a command center in the library, which was crammed with six telephones on the chance that Patty's captors might call. Throughout the week Randolph and Catherine Hearst?putting up a remarkably courageous front despite their fears?...
...laid by as many as five attackers as he unloaded a car full of groceries at his home. Forcing Benenson to the back seat floor, three of the gang drove his car to the $250-a-month duplex apartment in Berkeley that Patricia shared with her fiance Steven Weed, 26, a graduate student in philosophy. A young white woman persuaded Weed to open the door so that she could report an auto accident; when he did, she and two black men barged...
...seconds they had me face down on the floor, and they kept kicking me in the face," the badly beaten Weed later told police from a hospital bed. They also blackjacked him with a wine bottle. When a neighbor ran in to investigate the commotion, two of the three attackers beat and bound him. Then they forced Patricia, who was wearing only a blue bathrobe, to their commandeered car. Horrified neighbors, driven back by gunfire that the men pumped steadily into nearby windows and cars, heard her screaming "Please not me, please!" before she was stuffed into the trunk...
...haired, chunky, effervescent lawyer works as hard as a campaign politician. A crunching squeeze of the arm for one man, a glad-handshake for the next, hugs for all the wives. Then, with his back-country Florida drawl, he exhorts his fellow attorneys-this time about the need to weed out incompetent practitioners perhaps, even by requiring periodic retesting of lawyers. It is all said with an ingratiating charm and leavened with warming phrases about law as the "major bulwark between man and his government." At the finish, there is a loud ovation. But the radical proposition has not been...
...been giggin for 15. He carries a sawed-off shot gun and has a herd of goats runnin through his yard and a chicken house and a coupla hogs. He's real reclusive and don't want to meet nobody and he certainly knows the pleasures of the weed...