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...treated like one of the guys Says she: "Crip won't even open a door for me anymore." Ever since the mission earn selection was announced 14 months ago, Ride and her crewmates have spent most of their waking hours together. The fifth member of the group, Norman Thagard, 39, another mission specialist, was added only last December. As a physician, he will investigate a nagging difficulty of space travel: the initial queasiness, or "space adaptation syndrome," that seems to afflict about 50% of all astronauts in their first few days of weightlessness. The Challenger team members share...
...assault and battery," a charge that Alabama Attorney General Richmond Flowers termed ridiculous. As the trial began, Flowers requested dismissal of the case, so as to leave open the possibility that Coleman might be rein-dieted on a charge of assault with intent to kill. Circuit Judge T. Werth Thagard was only too happy to comply -dismissing the case "with prejudice," meaning that he did not want to hear it again in any event. (In the unlikely possibility that Coleman is reindicted, another judge can preside...
...turned out to be, in Flowers' bitter words, "nothing more than Uncle Toms." Despite impressive circumstantial evidence -an FBI ballistics expert testified that the bullet removed from the woman's brain was fired from a revolver owned by Thomas-the verdict was "not guilty." When Judge Thagard asked the Negroes individually whether they had concurred, each looked at the floor and muttered...
...defendant. Relentlessly, Flowers and an assistant questioned each prospective juror, asking him whether he thought the white race superior to the Negro, whether he felt that any person like Mrs. Liuzzo who associated with Negroes thereby made herself inferior to other whites. Over vehement defense objections, Judge Thagard let Flowers get his answers. In short order, Flowers established that of 30 veniremen available for the jury, eleven felt that white civil rights workers were indeed inferior...
...Flowers dropped his bombshell. He demanded the right to challenge all eleven "for cause."* "How can the State of Alabama expect a fair and just verdict in this case from men who have already sat in judgment on the victim and pronounced her inferior to themselves?" he asked. Judge Thagard denied the motion. But he gave Flowers time to seek a reversal in Alabama's Supreme Court...