Word: woman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beatings and torture by homicide detectives-and then found that cops were equally tough. The Inquirer decided to investigate police lawlessness after one egregious case-that of Robert ("Reds") Wilkinson, a mildly retarded auto mechanic who was beaten into confessing the fire-bomb murder in 1975 of a woman and her four children. Wilkinson was freed after a federal investigation in which witnesses said they had been intimidated and brutalized. The Inquirer has been front-paging such exposés ever since...
...trades unions for moderation, Tory Leader Margaret Thatcher was flying off for an eight-day visit to the U.S. Buoyed by recent by-election triumphs and polls showing her party well ahead of Labor, Mrs. Thatcher is confident that she will soon become Britain's first woman Prime Minister. Partly because of a casual commitment made on his visit to Britain last May, Jimmy Carter is making an exception in her case to a new White House practice that opposition leaders are received by the Vice President. While in Manhattan last week, she discussed some of Britain...
...River Runs Red, tells of a high-living party official whose son drowns himself out of disgust with his father's profligacy and privileged life. An illicit "yellow book"-Chinese slang for porn-entitled The Heart of a Young Girl graphically details the sexual adventures of a city woman dispatched to work on a commune...
...Stevens, Flip Wilson (he didn't flip), David Cassidy and sundry rockers, who to date have won no prizes. Henry ("the Fonz") Winkler went off the track on his first lap. But the best customers, the Malibu managers maintain, are the nonfamous people like the 42-year-old woman who set a track record-Alltime Slowest-on her first time out. She did the first 800-meter lap in 212 sec.-equivalent to 6½ m.p.h.-thereby qualifying for the Guinness Book of World Records as surely as any Andretti...
Jean White, a black and the only woman on Harvard's police force, was fired this summer because of what the police department called inexcusable absences. White charges that the department was looking for any excuse to fire her, and has filed her claims with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination. She has the support of the Police Association...