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Sentencing is a matter of great interest to many side judges. In Windsor County last year Louis Hamlin, a high school student, was convicted of murdering a twelve-year-old girl. Superior Court Judge Thomas Hayes, who described the proceedings as "the most controversial murder case in Vermont in a long, long time," would have sentenced Hamlin to 35 years. But his two assistant judges insisted on adding another ten years. Says one local court observer: "That made the assistant judges even more popular." (Hamlin is appealing the assistant judges' action...
...Marr and Bird, now only hours behind the trail of the Granbergs, staked out one of the family's favorite hiding spots, the Temple Hills Motel in New Windsor, N.Y. The investigators now had enough evidence to bring in state police and federal inspectors for an arrest, and when Granberg walked unsuspectingly out of his motel room, they pounced. Granberg was indicted the following week by a federal grand jury on four counts of fraud and is now in jail in Manhattan, awaiting trial. Judy Granberg, Rignola and Farriel were also arrested on charges of fraud. Says Marr...
...your article on Americans vacationing overseas [July 25], you show a photo of a U.S. tourist kissing a Windsor Castle Guardsman in England. What would happen if I, a British citizen, attempted to kiss your President's Secret Service men? Make no mistake, that "little toy soldier" is a member of the British army and has probably served in Northern Ireland or the Falklands. I do not deny that his dress uniform is a tourist attraction, but a little respect should be shown to the man and his profession...
RECOVERING. Margaret Thatcher, 57, Britain's Iron Lady; from surgery on a partly detached retina in her right eye; in Windsor, England. The Prime Minister entered Princess Christian Hospital after unsuccessful laser treatment, left three days later pronouncing herself...
...drawings: something easier said than done in America until now. Although there are paintings by Holbein in U.S. collections, the body of his graphic work is in England and on the Continent. The most important part of it belongs to the British royal family and is housed at Windsor; it comprises the many sketches Holbein made of the nobility and gentry at the court of Henry VIII during his two sojourns in London, a short spell from 1526 to 1528 and a long one of eleven years that finished with his death, of the plague, in 1543. Much of this...