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Supreme Court Watchers, devoted to a spectator sport even more decorous than cricket or chess-by-mail, broke out in a buzz of raised eyebrows last week. In a rare combination, liberal Justice William O. Douglas joined conservative John Marshall Harlan in a dissent against the rest of the Court. Their seven colleagues had reversed the Utah Supreme Court to reinstate a jury's award of $10,000 to injured Railroad Worker Claude Dennis. For Justice Douglas, it was the first time in many years that he had sided against such a jury award to an injured worker...
...oceanographic research, says a Miami oil executive who claims to own the ship. On her last sailing, Oct. 19, the Rex left with two 20-ft. launches, and returned last week without the speedboats. The Spanish-speaking crew has nothing to say about anything, but Cuban exiles in Miami buzz with stories of four dead men and a wounded man transferred to a U.S. submarine off the coast of Cuba on the morning...
...longer do beach boys take people skindiving from their dugouts for $1.60 a day-they buzz around in motor boats. Twelve deep-sea boats stand ready-at $30 to $50 a day-to bring in that trophy for the game room. The bungalow that rented for $30 a month brings as much as $250, and a one-bedroom house on the fashionable hillside called "Gringo Gulch" goes for at least $10,000-still a bargain by Acapulco standards. There is neon, a supermarket, a nightclub. The new Posada
...nearly every night. He has no discernible trade and lives on the dole as if he had earned it. He is selfish, improvident, coarse, arrogant and bullying. "Don't stand out there in the cold, lass," he says to his sister-in-law, come to pay a visit. "Buzz off." His name is Andy Capp, and he is the newest folk hero of the comic strips...
...tone of the echo. Once he knows the size of an object, he can tell its distance by the loudness of the echo. Judging a target's material is a more subtle job, but in general, such hard materials as metal and glass send back a clear buzz, while cloth and other soft surfaces send a mushy return...