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Martinez' head lamp. In the nick of time, he flung the lamp to the ground, and the party scattered into the bush. Says Martinez: "I'm still shuddering...
...surer-El Tigre moves at night." Others, like Enrique Martinez, a professional guide from San Jose, have learned a lesson or two. Two years ago Martinez was leading a hunting party that jumped a 250-lb. jaguar at night. He trained his coal miner's head lamp on the animal while one of the hunters took aim and fired. Wounded and enraged, the jaguar leaped-straight...
...cars spotted a well-known narcotics racketeer named Nolan Mack taking a heroin delivery from a second man. Recognizing the agents, Mack leaped into his car and fled. The agents barreled after him. In a dizzying chase, Mack rammed one of the pursuing cars, sent it careening into a lamp pole. The second agent finally cornered Mack. But as the agent scrambled from his car, Mack opened fire. The first bullet creased the agent's temple; the second slammed into a car window, spraying glass into the agent's face. The report concludes with characteristic understatement: "When...
...therefore could be copied. Last week the Supreme Court handed down a decision of such broad impact that it overturned unfair-competition doctrines in all 50 states and set a precedent that will affect U.S. industry for years to come. The subject of the dispute was a pole lamp, one of those floor-to-ceiling devices that adorn the modern home...
...Supreme Court's unanimous ruling was based on a conflict between Sears, Roebuck and Chicago's Stiffel Co., the originator of the pole lamp. Stiff el's sales sagged after Sears, in 1957, brought out an identical pole lamp that sold for about half the price; the company took the matter to court. A federal court found Sears guilty of unfair competition, not because of a patent infringement but under an Illinois common law that forbids exact copying of another's goods. In fact, ruled the court, Stiffel's pole lamp was not really unique...