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...journalist, Ved Mehta is not quite up to his own assignment. The most charitable view of his book is that it is a bit too successful in communicating to the reader the author's own state of quizzical bemusement as he plunges into a metaphysical brier patch...
Such obsessions-if the criminal charges against him are correct-led Beckwith to the assassination of Negro Leader Medgar Evers. In the honeysuckle patch where the killer hid, police found an abandoned rifle. FBI agents traced its ownership to Beckwith, a gun collector; they also identified a fingerprint on the weapon as Beckwith's. Arrested by the FBI, Beckwith was turned over to state authorities, who are demanding that he be sentenced to death...
...airline industry, which suffers periodically from financial turbulence, last week ran into a patch of especially rough air. Items...
Soon state and local cops, along with FBI agents, were scouring Mississippi for clues. They found the assassin's weapon-a Springfield rifle mounted with a new telescopic sight-in the honeysuckle patch across from Evers' house...
...Club pool was in active, but not crowded, use during the afternoon, although for most of the cool morning very few wanted to come any closer to it than a patch of sun on the concrete deck. Some hearty souls did, however, take advantage of the shuttle bus service offered to near-by Singing Beach on the Atlantic...