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Control was the word for Johnson in the recent trial of Harvey King Conner, a former Elmore County deputy sheriff charged with beating a Negro motorist to death last November. A county grand jury refused to indict the 200-lb. Conner, although two state troopers had seen him hitting the 155-lb. Negro with a blackjack. He was therefore tried in Johnson's court on the federal charge of having denied the victim's civil rights...
...time and again that he is equally at home pinching a penny in his native U.S. or in his adopted Britain. Last week Getty, 74, was at it again-this time with some advice for British automobile owners anxious to get more miles for their money. "No cost-conscious motorist," said he, with his own inimitable perspective, "can ever afford to be without a chauffeur-even if he secretly plays the part himself...
...dramatize the importance of auto care, Getty provided specifics. "A single faulty spark plug," he wrote, "can add ?13 [$36.40] to the fuel bill for an average motorist's annual mileage of 7,400. Similarly, an engine filter choked with dirt can cost another ?6 in the course of a year; defective piston rings - ?5; faulty thermostat-?3; and incorrect ignition setting...
...sole assassin. He also narrates a harrowing little episode involving Caroline Kennedy. Fearing that an attempt might be made on the lives of the Kennedy family, a Secret Service agent named Tom Wells picked up Caroline from some friends and started driving her away in an unmarked car. Another motorist spotted Caroline in the car, and thinking she had been abducted, gave hot pursuit. After a highspeed chase, Wells finally managed to escape...
Connecticut's top court recently went even further by ruling that all judges in that state can take "judicial notice" of the principle of radar, meaning that they can assume that the gadget works as claimed when properly set up and operated. A motorist caught speeding in Connecticut by radar has little chance of acquittal. The odds are that motorists in Florida and elsewhere may eventually have no better legal luck with aerial surveillance...