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...Twelfth Amendment says that the members of the Electoral College in each state must vote for one man-for President or Vice President-who is an inhabitant of another state. The amendment has never been put to a test, but it does not seem to be an absolute barrier; one of the candidates, for instance, could change his legal residence before the electors meet...
...remaining "Soledad brothers," as they are known, Fleeta Drumbo and John Clutchette, stripped off their shirts in court in an attempt to expose bruises from beatings that they said they had received after the uprising. Two days later, in a tense, spectator-filled courtroom newly equipped with a bulletproof barrier between spectators and the bench, another hearing took place. When Judge Carl Allen repeatedly denied defense motions to investigate the beating charge, Mrs. Doris Maxwell, Clutchette's mother, screamed, "You ain't no honorable judge!" Bailiffs, later reinforced by helmeted San Francisco policemen, moved into the spectator section...
Beautiful Cumberland. One of the greatest environmental treasures remaining to the nation is the brief, marshy Georgia coastline between Savannah and St. Marys. The jewels of this region are the unusual "barrier islands" and particularly Cumberland Island, which was recently designated a national seashore area. There was good reason for preserving it. Wild horses...
...fact that families would be divided and a whole people would be left with no exit. That a city of 3,000,000-2,000,000 of them sealed in the Western sector -should be slashed in two by wire and watchtowers still seems fantastic. But to Berliners the barrier has become oddly familiar, a topic of conversation only on the still frequent occasions when a would-be escapee is shot down while trying to make it to the West...
Troublesome Standard? With some pain, Burger conceded that the "line of [church-state] separation, far from being a 'wall,' is a blurred, indistinct and variable barrier." His reasoning was too blurred for Justices William O. Douglas, Hugo Black, Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan, who dissented in the college-aid decision. None of them could see why Government support of secular services should be more entangling in schools than colleges. All thought that the court should have banned aid to colleges too; Justice Byron White, the lone supporter of school-level aid, argued that if colleges meet the Allen...