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...act that violates both federal and state statutes can be penalized in both court systems without being considered double jeopardy within either system. Wrote Justice Felix Frankfurter, 76, as he picked the majority's way through court precedent in the Bartkus case: "It would be in derogation of our federal system to displace the reserved power of states over state offenses by reason of prosecution of minor federal offenses by federal authorities beyond the control of the states...
Dissenting, Justice Hugo Black cracked that "This notion is too subtle for me to grasp," was joined in his usual hard core of liberals by Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justice William O. Douglas. "The court apparently takes the position," charged Black, "that a second trial for the same act is somehow less offensive if one of the trials is conducted by the Federal Government and the other by a state." In a surprising aside he noted that the majority opinions would work a hardship only on "the poor and the weak without friends in high places" who could "influence...
...Act just a little, I guess...
...small choice. This year nearly 70% of the cars in the show-about 400 in all-sell for less than $3,000. For $4,000 (about the price of a Ford Thunderbird), the auto buyer can have anything but a few top models. Everybody is getting into the merchandising act, moving up, down, and all around to tap a foreign-car import market that is expected to top 500,000 units this year. Even England's staid old Daimler, best known for the limousines it builds for Britain's royal family, introduced a car specially designed...
Kirkland House has already started to act on the report, which came out Monday, Charles H. Taylor, Master of Kirland, reported. "We are discussing some points of it now," he said, "and we have set up a subcommittee to study the possibility of appointing a House member to initiate various events which would give students and tutors a greater opportunity to meet...