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Redlich was acquitted of trespassing because she was thrown on the AVCO property, and another acquitted due to a police officer's improper identification, but five were convicted of the charges...
...fact, Eisner had considered the matter long before that gauntlet was thrown down. To begin with, he says, "the bringing together of appropriate chemicals at appropriate times is the basis of all biology. It's as old as life itself." So why single out the bombardier for harboring dangerous chemicals in its body? he asks. Why not the human digestive tract, for example? There the stomach walls are protected from the hydrochloric acid within by a layer of mucus, which, if damaged, would allow the potent acid to attack the stomach walls and be released into the body...
Says Spanish Political Writer Manuel Leguineche: "The Gibraltarians used to have a kind of love-hate feeling toward the Spaniards. Now it's one of hate-hate." Indeed last week eggs, tomatoes and oranges were thrown at the first Spanish vehicle to cross the border, a motorcycle carrying a young man and his girlfriend...
...critically praised authors who have also produced bestsellers. This happy event entitled her longtime admirers to mixed emotions. While it is pleasurable to see a favored writer receive the success she deserves, it is irksome to realize that membership in a small club of discriminating readers has suddenly been thrown open to multitudes. If so many people, the reasoning follows, liked Godwin's loose, loving chronicle of three plucky females, then maybe we should find it disappointing. And whom will she write for next time, all of them...
...Dead came on at 10:15, after half an hour of anticipatory hooting from the Dead Heads. As always, stage center was covered by two Oriental rugs, strewn with roses thrown by the crowd. Weir and Bass Player Lesh stood to the left, Garcia and Keyboardist Mydland to the right, the two drummers and a percussion rig vast enough to drive a spaceship elevated to the rear. Lights swirled, and the bandsmen swung into the saddle and began their long ride...