Word: confess
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Escobedo v. Illinois (1964) decided that the right to have counsel present begins when police start grilling a prime suspect. The court ruled that Chicago Laborer Danny Escobedo had been forced to confess to a murder without legal aid. After Danny had spent 41 years in jail, Illinois dropped the charges...
...Rideau v. Louisiana (1963) reversed Bank Robber Wilbert Rideau's murder conviction because a Louisiana sheriff had Rideau "confess" on television before thousands of potential jurors. Rideau was reconvicted and now faces another death sentence...
...polio since 1941, conducts an opera workshop, Professor Howard R. Long declares: "When she puts on an opera, by God, it's an opera. I almost cry when I see these corn-fed kids belting that opera like pros." U.C.L.A. writing students will never forget hearing Novelist Isherwood confess that there were pages in one of his novels "that even I can no longer decipher...
...balance-of-payments deficit is the least-understood major problem facing the nation today. Many of the businessmen most affected by it confess that they do not grasp all its vagaries and nuances. But they are convinced that when a relatively modest $3 billion deficit forces a nation with a $650 billion economy to reduce its role in international finance, then something is wrong with the world's bookkeeping...
...position to judge their qualifications, rather than by a student body the majority of which has no real basis on which to make a decision. I realize that a Radcliffe student's right to vote is a function of her status as a member of RGA, but I must confess that I am alienated from, rather than bound to RGA When it is represented to me by a list of unknowns. At present RGA elections seem a futile and, to me, frustrating gesture. Mellssa M. Black...