Word: case
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...looked like a clear case of child abuse. The youngster had bruises on back and chest, apparently the result of a severe beating. Horrified observers reported the case to authorities, who prosecuted the bewildered Vietnamese refugee parents. But the trial ended soon enough when a physician testified that the child was only the "victim" of an old folk remedy: coin rubbing...
...reception they give, and a little later the director's secretary succumbs in unpleasant circumstances. Miss Marple, the spinster sleuth-played agreeably by Lansbury in a more subdued style than is her custom or that of her glorious predecessor in the role, Margaret Rutherford-solves the case, almost by remote control...
...happens, a very good case. The explanation of motives and methods is rather more strained than one expects from a Christie story. In the adaptation there are, as well, a number of loose ends left flapping about. Guy Hamilton's direction is languid, and, perhaps because of budgetary reasons, both the backgrounds of scenes and the sound track have an odd emptiness about them, a deadness that suggests there was not enough money to fill them up with suitably enlivening bustle and buzz...
...sentencing came after the Justice Department dropped the charge against a co-conspirator in the case, L. Patrick Gray III, acting FBI director from May 1972 to April 1973, and also ended a five-year probe aimed at scores of FBI men suspected of abusing their power. That effort grew out of the bureau's drive to track down the 30 or more known members of the Weather Underground, a left-wing group responsible for dozens of Viet Nam-era bombings. A New York City-based FBI unit called Squad 47 broke into the homes of innocent relatives...
...noted that presidential nicknames have dwindled in our century, from "The Hero of San Juan Hill," who sported 17, to "Tricky Dick," who needed but one. Either we are growing less fond of our leaders, or they are growing further away from us. In any case, it will be a healthy sign for Mr Reagan should the public start calling him Ronnie or even Sweet Eyes. TIME'S congressional correspondent Neil MacNeil recalls that when Mike DiSalle, then mayor of Toledo, escorted ex-King Michael of Yugoslavia in an open-car parade, the citizens called out to the mayor...