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Gone with the Jury. It is on an issue developed by North Carolina's respected Democratic Senator Sam Ervin Jr., onetime judge on his state's Supreme Court, that the Southerners have built their first line of defense. As a member of a Judiciary subcommittee conducting hearings on the civil rights bill, Ervin began asking questions about "the abolition of trial by jury." This, he argued, would result from the civil contempt citations against persons disobeying the courts' injunctions under the new bill. It would, cried Ervin, be a "tragic error to attempt the protection of civil...
...grandfather Abdullah "one Sunday afternoon in Jerusalem," as he later said. Churchill was repaying Abdullah's fighting services to Britain in Lawrence of Arabia's desert campaign (another hunk-Mesopotamia, now Iraq-was given to Abdullah's brother Feisal). Thenceforth, while Britain's Glubb Pasha built the British-equipped Arab Legion into Islam's sprucest fighting force, Abdullah ruled the sandy wastes as a Bedouin black-tent state...
Bing Crosby's languid baritone drifted through the University of Omaha field house-"drifting and dreaming, while shadows fall." The brawny, crew-cut young men in T shirts and gym shorts couldn't wait for the shadows. A boulder-built (5 ft. 6 in., 150 Ibs.) wingback named Jerry Hunter sidled up to a hulking (6 ft. 3 in., 220 Ibs.) Negro tackle named Al Brown and asked: "May I have this dance?" Another time, another place, and Hunter might have earned a poke in the teeth. But this was Physical Education 251, and Tackle Brown minded...
...same individual missile could not have made both records. The X17, officially designated as a "reentry test vehicle," was designed and built to test heat-resistant materials for the nose cones of long-range ballistic missiles that will strike down from space at 16,000 m.p.h. Such speed is not necessary for the test vehicle itself. If it flies at about 9,000 m.p.h. in the thick air of low altitude, its nose will be subjected to as much heating and erosion as if it had plunged at 16,000 m.p.h. into the thin outer fringe of the atmosphere...
TACOMA, Wash., May 2--Dave Beck, the onetime laundry driver who built a personal fortune in his rise to the presidency of one of the biggest labor unions, was charged here today with income tax evasion...