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...series of articles on the police that was published last spring, the Philadelphia Inquirer first discovered a pervasive pattern of beatings and torture by homicide detectives-and then found that cops were equally tough. The Inquirer decided to investigate police lawlessness after one egregious case-that of Robert ("Reds") Wilkinson, a mildly retarded auto mechanic who was beaten into confessing the fire-bomb murder in 1975 of a woman and her four children. Wilkinson was freed after a federal investigation in which witnesses said they had been intimidated and brutalized. The Inquirer has been front-paging such expos...
...girls Ashley also accused the company of giving top executives a $1,000 raise on the understanding that it was to be donated in $50 installments to a political slush fund. The pot was used for contributions to local and state officials friendly to Bell rate increases. Ward K. Wilkinson, the company's Austin lobbyist, admitted that he collected $1,200 a month from Bell executives for a political fund that was kept in cash in his office safe...
...saccharin, at first considered closing its saccharin plant in Cincinnati after the ban was declared. Last week it decided to keep the plant open to meet demand. Currently, the plant is operating day and night to fill a sudden accumulation of orders-enough, says Plant Manager Kenneth H. Wilkinson, "to go another 30 days...
...Wilkinson Steel...
Chodrow said yesterday he arrived at the new formula for grades after meeting with Physics S-1 students Friday and consulting with H. Francois Wilkinson, associate director of the Summer School...