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...harsh and unnecessary repression, the government succeeded chiefly in drawing anger toward itself and provoking sympathy for the students. Quite possibly the army's actions may have revived a campus rebellion that was beginning to peter out. A Chamber of Deputies commission had announced itself ready to meet the students, who were still pressing a list of demands, most notably 1) changing ill-defined antisubversion laws and 2) disbanding the city's riot cops. Now, such hope for accommodation lay blasted in the plaza...
...several tribunals dithered over the case, the duchess was finally brought to trial by the Press Court set up in 1967 to handle "press offenses" that fall under the penal code. The trial of the diminutive, 32-year-old duchess took place in the tribunal's highceilinged, chandeliered chamber...
...past two years, and may well leave more and more of the big issues to Congress. Still, the libertarian doctrines developed by the Warren court during the past 15 years are firmly rooted. They are not likely to be abandoned by the men who now sit in the chamber...
Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, normally the mildest of men, was beside himself. "Outrageous!" he stormed. "We are, by our accomplishments, making the Senate look ridiculous, picayune and incompetent to handle the business of the people." The problem, really, was a lack of accomplishments. Repeatedly lacking a quorum, the upper chamber ground to a halt several times. At one point the Senate went into a 1-hour and 40-minute recess owing to what Mansfield testily termed "a complex development." That development: Senator Allen Ellender's 78th birthday, which he marked by whipping up his annual luncheon of Louisiana creole...
...self-help idea has spread to 600 other prisoners who have enrolled in service organizations that are part of Warden Patterson's rehabilitation program. Among the clubs is an authorized chapter of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, which this fall is sponsoring a charity football game between the prison team-the "Rockbusters" and the semipro Colorado Colts. The proceeds will go to a parolees' halfway house and a judge's youth program. The convicts have become so respectable that last summer they were invited to the Colorado state fair where about 70 of them set up their...