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After all, the field of nine in the Democratic primary last week offered stiff competition. There was Dr. Harvey Sloane, the articulate and capable former mayor of Louisville. Outgoing Governor Julian Carroll, whose administration has been tainted by scandal, was backing his former commerce commissioner, Terry McBrayer. Spunky Lieutenant Governor Thelma Stovall had strengthened her own candidacy by calling a special legislative session to consider tax cuts. As the pack turned into the home stretch, the mud started to fly. Governor Carroll took to the stump to attack Brown, once a close friend, whom he accused of refusing to release...
Appointed to the bench by President Nixon in 1971, Wood had earned the title "Maximum John" because he handed out stiff sentences in the many drug cases in his district, which stretches from San Antonio to El Paso. In 90 cases involving heroin traffic, he gave out maximum sentences in 65 and never granted probation. He was often reversed and occasionally criticized for his rulings by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. On July 23 he was scheduled to preside over one of his most important trials, that of Las Vegas Gambler Jimmy Chagra, who has been charged with conspiracy...
...briefly covered the White House for the Sun, and he has described the job as "sitting in the lobby and listening to the older reporters breathe." He covered the State Department for the Times, and did it well, but the airy ambiguities of the place bored him stiff...
...forms. What is more, the patient, who is now practically the only one kept in the dark about his medical records, would finally be allowed to examine them, either directly or through an intermediary. Penalties for obtaining the information under false pre tenses would be relatively stiff: up to a year in jail, a fine of $10,000, or both...
...comparing results from more than 30 patients suffering varying degrees of depression, they were able to establish two groups: those below a certain urine level responded to relatively low dosages of a test drug; those above either did not respond or had to be given stiff dosages...