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George Wallace's third-party quest for the presidency has captured so many hearts and spleens that by last week he was already on the November ballot in 16 states. Yet a briar patch was growing in his own home state. His reputation is built not only on the sands of segregation but on a claim of bedrock honesty as well. "The books are always open," he liked to brag about his days as Alabama Governor. Now an angry Alabamian has opened the books in federal court...
...Smith are not thinking of leaving the state. "It may be scratchy, but this is my briar patch," Ben Smith says. "Next time we'll hit them all the harder...
...plenty to tell. The son of a Greek immigrant, he decided early to go for easy money rather than the legitimate proceeds of the small restaurant chain his father had built up from a pushcart. He began by swiping a briar pipe and a pair of sunglasses from a parked car, eventually worked his way up to an armed stickup. Caught and locked up, he proceeded to pry a board out of a fence around Mattapan State Hospital, where he was under observation, and began an ancillary career: jail breaking. When the police got him back, they kept...
...Fair Balance." For textiles, the U.S. granted only 20% reductions, but of the 5,700 dutiable items on the nation's present tariff schedules, only 211 were excluded entirely from the negotiations (among them: petroleum, sheet glass, zinc, lead, safety pins, umbrella frames, briar pipes and baseball gloves). The Common Market kept such items as heavy commercial vehicles and computers (except for those using punch cards) out of the dickering. Jean Rey, the Belgian chief negotiator for the Common Market, called his group "extremely satisfied" with the outcome-a reaction echoed by most governments. Secretary of State Dean Rusk...
...ground that Doyle had been unlawfully imprisoned because his court-appointed lawyer had had only a few hours to prepare a defense. In a scathing order, Craven told North Carolina that imprisoning rather than treating Doyle "is a little like throwing Br'er Rabbit in the briar patch." And he asked: "Is it not time to redraft a criminal statute first enacted in 1533? And if so, cannot the criminal-law draftsmen be helped by those best informed on the subject-medical doctors...