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...driver, Miss Ann Topping of Sangus, was taken to Cambridge City Hospital, and her injuries were reported as "not serious." Her passenger, Douglas Connor '65, was unharmed...
...speeches. It also prevented the men running the show from maintaining a proper guard against ringers. Thus last week a dark-haired volunteer worker from the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington had little trouble infiltrating the Goldwater Special train. Posing as a freelance writer, Moira O'Connor, 23, managed twice to distribute copies of an anti-Goldwater broadside the full length of the train, missing only the candidate...
Exposed as a spy, and the agent of a California Democratic prankster named Richard Tuck, Miss O'Connor was put off the train in Parkersburg, W. Va., only ten hours after boarding. But however simple-minded her mission might have been, campaign newsmen, on a starvation diet of steaks and oratory, jumped at the chance to report it. In front-page stories around the U.S., they gave the Democrats' girl spy a far better ride than she had got on the Goldwater Special...
Last week's jury, apparently convinced that the Times had acted without malice, awarded Bull Connor nothing in punitive damages. But despite the Supreme Court dictum that, short of malice, just about anything goes in criticism of public officials, the jury awarded Connor $40,000 compensatory damages for any injury done his reputation. Before he collects Connor may have to wait for a Supreme Court ruling...
Even while losing the Connor case, the Times won another last week. A New York State supreme court jury decided in favor of the Times in a $1,000,000 libel suit brought by the J. Radley Metzger company, a textile firm. The suit was based on a 1958 Times editorial accusing the company of making "sweetheart contracts," defined in the editorial as "those which benefit racketeering union officials and employers." The jury agreed that however harsh the comment, the Times had acted without malice...