Word: c
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...HENRY C. PATTERSON Philadelphia...
...most U.S. communities. The Burma-Shave company needs a greater variety of jingles for its roadside signs. The best apple pie in the U.S. is served at the Cottage Inn in Cripple Creek, Colo. The whistles of railroad trains speeding across the American prairies are in the key of C, and are the first, third and fifth notes of a chord. These and other minutiae are among the many observations and conclusions of Mr. and Mrs. John David Gill, in the course of leisurely strolls around the U.S. and Canada. By this month the Gills, a Philadelphia couple, had been...
...York reversed Provoo's conviction on technical grounds: he should have been tried in Maryland, where first picked up, and he should not have been cross-examined on the "prejudicial" issue of homosexuality. He was indicted again in Baltimore, but last March U.S. District Judge Roszel C. Thomsen threw out the case, ruling: "Provoo . . . has been denied the right of speedy trial within the meaning of the Sixth Amendment." Last week the Supreme Court upheld the dismissal...
...Virus Laboratory of the University of California, two researchers announced this week that they have taken an infectious virus apart and reduced it to a mixture of utterly dead chemicals, then put it together and made it infectious again. Drs. H. Fraenkel-Conrat and Robley C. Williams do not want it said that they have "created life"; a simple virus is alive in a special sense only. But they do believe that they have come closer to one of science's major aims-knowing the nature of life. Says Dr. Williams: "We have no doubt that eventually we will...
Last week, under the byline of Post and Times Herald Reporter Robert C. Albright, Executive Editor Wiggins published the facts under the head: PORTRAIT OF A GOVERNMENT WHEN LEADER IS FELLED. Wrote Albright: "So far as this reporter could determine, at no time during this first night was there any talk of a presidential delegation of powers to Nixon or to anybody else . . . During ensuing conversations with other Cabinet officials Nixon expressed the view that there should be no delegation of powers to himself, even if such a delegation were constitutionally feasible." Furthermore, it developed, Attorney General Brownell...