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...Congress tried to give the feds a boost by passing a law that creates a presumption of guilt for anyone caught near a moonshiner's place of business. Unless he has a good alibi, "such presence of the defendant shall be deemed sufficient evidence to authorize his conviction." Last week that law came before the Supreme Court in the case of Jackie Gainey, a Georgia moonshiner who had been nabbed near a still. Upholding the law 8 to 1, the court, in a majority opinion by Justice Potter Stewart noted that moonshiners are "notorious for the deftness with which...
Admittedly, the speeches and commentary from Atlantic City often sounded like a rererun of something called What Next from Planet Lyndon? But Fred Friendly, president of CBS News, had a quiet alibi. "Conventions," he said, "were designed for the William Jennings Bryan day. Some day, somebody is going to have to sit down and streamline them...
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...