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...Earl Brown, a grocer, and his wife and twelve-year-old son had heard the tornado alerts early in the morning and knew that the watch expired at 5 p.m. At 4:30 they figured the twister had missed them. Minutes later it hit, demolishing the entire front of the house and turning the family car around...
...such alleged friend was Brigadier General Earl F. Cole, a deputy chief of staff at Long Binh base. According to Jack Bybee, a former Crum employee in Viet Nam, the general was paid $1,000 a month by Crum for favors. Once, when Crum was feeling threatened by the success of a competitor's slot-machine business, he asked Cole to initiate an investigation into the activities of his rival. The competitor was duly raided and forced to close. Afterward, Crum boasted that he had "paid for" the raid...
Astonishing Question. The plot began to take shape in 1968, when one Earl J. Williamson was assigned to the American embassy in San José as a political officer. Williamson, 55, also served as CIA station chief. While he was attached to the U.S. embassy in Havana during the Batista era, he had married the vivacious niece of a wealthy Cuban sugar baron. The Williamsons moved in wealthy San José circles, where Pepe Figueres was considered a "Communist" by some because of his social reforms. Williamson and his wife made no effort to hide their dislike for the President...
Several months earlier, the 7th Circuit Court had ruled that requiring New York Times reporter Earl Caldwell to appear before a Grand Jury that was making a general investigation of the Panthers would drive "a wedge of distrust between the media and the militants." Thus, it would have a "chilling effect" on the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of the press. The judges in that case held that only compelling national interest could be held to justify an invasion of the First Amendment rights of free speech, association, and press. But they held that their ruling was a narrow...
After displaying a bulldozing running attack all year long, Dallas could generate only a meager 104 yds. on the ground; Baltimore's premier quarterback Johnny Unitas completed only three out of nine passes before retiring with injured ribs. Earl Morrall, his back-up man and another veteran, did little better with seven...