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...Probably the worst disservice of the Goldwater candidacy was to compel the overwhelming majority of American voters to give Lyndon Johnson a victory that, as history will note, he did not deserve...
...still small compared with the regular exchanges (about 3% of the Big Board's), but the third market is growing steadily-and has so far escaped nearly all the regulations imposed on the exchanges. Funston wants the SEC, which has been holding hearings on the third market, to compel it to play by roughly the same rules as the others...
...schoolmaster." During last term's sit-in cases (set aside on narrow grounds), Goldberg argued that the 14th Amendment bans private racial discrimination in public accommodations. Not so, snapped Black. In the absence of state-enforced segregation or valid federal law, said Black, the 14th Amendment "does not compel either a black man or a white man running his own private business to trade with anyone else against his will." And he added: "The worst citizen no less than the best is entitled to equal protection of the laws of his state and of his nation...
...Gideon v. Wainwright, which overturned the conviction of Florida Indigent Clarence Earl Gideon, applies the Sixth Amendment's right to counsel to all defendants in state criminal courts. Overriding precedents going back to 1908, the Court last year said that under the Fifth Amendment a state cannot compel a person to testify against himself...
...first try with an electromagnet. When he found that it was another material - almost certainly brass-all he could do was let the eye heal a little and hope to get at the object later. But there was grave danger that eye fluids would react with the metal and compel removal of the eye. Then Dr. Passmore remembered reading that Dr. Nathaniel Bronson II had begun work in New York on an ultrasound probe to locate foreign bodies in the eye within a millimeter. (X rays have an error range of three to four millimeters, which is considered...