Word: alibied
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bibliophile Alibi. Even as it swept away Section 6, the court intimated that Congress could write a new law which would pass constitutional muster. "The appellants in this case," said the court pointedly, "should not be required to assume the burden of demonstrating that Congress could have written a statute which might constitutionally have prohibited their travel...
...campus observers. "The big picture is unchanged," says Stanford Psychologist Nevitt Sanford. "Students are by and large not interested in the larger questions of the day in this country." Chatham's President Eddy frets that "youth is beginning to retreat behind excellence" to what he calls "the permanent alibi of scholarship." Critics also sourly complain that today's collegians are "totally defeatist" and "so damn sober." "There's a material sophistication that is not matched by a spiritual one," says one California professor, adding, "They all seem to have read a great deal-hastily...
...Robert and Eva Lewis stripped Kathy Harwell to the waist (she insisted on keeping on her bra), sopped her in tar, sprinkled on the feathers, and bound her arms. They then headed for the county sheriff's office to report another minor incident-and to give themselves an alibi. To make things even more realistic, another young female friend of the Lewises set what was supposed to be a small fire at the rear of the Lewis house...
Neither proved to have an ironclad alibi for the day. Sacco, a worker in a shoe factory, had taken the day off to go to Boston and get a passport for his trip to Italy. Vanzetti was a fish-peddler and could only rely on the word of his customers for an alibi...
...another instance Lowell attempted to break Sacco's alibi by showing that a dinner which Sacco and his witnesses said they had discussed in Boston on April 15 had really not taken place until May 13. He was shown to be mistaken, but peevishly kept the correction of his error out of the official record of the case. More importantly, Lowell broke a rule of the committee by accepting evidence and investigating on his own without Stratton and Grant...