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Next day Nunnally learned that his shots had struck John Allen Reeves, 20, and Walter Franklin Shook, 19. Reeves' wound was slight, but Shook was paralyzed from the chest down. He has filed a $1 million suit against the Nunnallys for the shooting, although the police have ruled it a justifiable act of self-defense. Now the Nunnallys are terrified; they sit up most nights with the lights turned off and wait in the dark with a .22-cal. rifle. They have thought of moving away. "But it's bad everywhere now, and we've got good neighbors," says...
...dinner party conversation between black and white that zeroes in on The Black and White Question like a surface-to-air missile. The lily-white athletic club. The coal-black radio station. It is odd to think that this is where the civil rights movement of the 1960s has wound up, or down. But as any strict constructionist will adjure, the civil rights laws were enacted to allow for equal chances, not equal smiles; so it should hardly shock the system to learn that, on the bulk of the evidence, official and personal, the American social scene is less mixed...
...Arts Trio has been together for quite awhile: this season marks its 25th anniversary. The group was started in 1955 as sort of an experiment among three friends--Greenhouse. Pressler and violinist Daniel Guilet. That first season proved quite surprising: instead of the anticipated eight or so concerts, they wound up playing 80. Upon Guilet's retirement in 1968, Cohen joined the Beaux Arts after ten years as a violinist for the distinguished Julliard String Quartet. Today the group plays over 125 concerts each year, at least half abroad. They are unanimously acclaimed on five continents as chamber music...
...scheme ran smoothly from late 1978 until early this year. But as the size of the theft grew, Lewis found it tougher to avoid detection. Wells Fargo's computers are programmed to sound a warning on transactions above $1 million. To prevent that, Lewis wound up having to make weekly entries involving as many as 25 different tickets for amounts...
Fuentes sits up even straighter and looks very stern. "I have not said that the revolution has been betrayed. This has become a cliche in the interpretation of my work. I blieve the social and economic processes inserted into history are not wound and pure and change. What does not change, however, is our ideology...