Some editors demand short leads, under 30 words whenever possible. This requires reporters to stress single-element and summary leads in their stories. Rewrite the following leads, making them single-element or summary with fewer than 30 words.
     1. A last-quarter scoring spree by Connie Hawkins, the newly arrived forward, enabled the Bullets to erase a seemingly insurmountable 22-point halftime lead by the Warriors in a come-from-behind win, 88-87.
     2. "The defendant's crime may not have caused physical harm, but the hardship he inflicted on those who trusted him with their savings cannot be ignored," said District Judge Marvin Hurley yesterday in sentencing Norris Josephson to a minimum of five years in the state penitentiary on a fraudulent investment scheme that bilked local residents of more than a half million dollars.
     3. The weather bureau today offered little hope to corn and wheat growers across a wide belt of Minnesota with a prediction of no rain for the next week to relieve the month-long drought that has cut crops by an estimated 5 percent to date.
     4. F.W. Walkenhorst, a university regent, said at a meeting of the regents today that the teaching staff at the state university works an average of fewer than 20 hours a week and that, unless this is remedied by a larger course load, the state legislature could not be expected to approve the university's current budget request.
     5. The Crested Butte Dam burst last night and a wall of water 12 feet high swept through small towns, farms and ranches in eastern Idaho leaving an unknown number of dead and injured and millions of dollars in destruction.
     6. In a talk last night to the local press club, Russell Cooper, a political reporter based in Washington, D.C., said that the traditional role of the political reporter has been superseded by modern advertising techniques, which allow a candidate to project the image the candidate desires in "the picture-hungry, simplicity-oriented media that are unwilling or unable to deal with complexities."
     7. The use of publicly employed teachers in religious schools has come under constitutional challenge in a suit filed in federal court here today by the National Coalition for Public Education and Religious Liberty (PEARL). The organization contends that the United States Commission on Education has violated the Constitution by ignoring Supreme Court rulings barring the assignment of public school teachers to religious schools during regular school hours.