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...headed by Houston's redoubtable Percy Foreman (see THE LAW), were copping a plea. Foreman could muster no rebuttal of the evidence arrayed against his client. To allow Shelby County Attorney General Phil M. Canale Jr. to lay his case before a jury, Foreman reasoned, would, in effect, consign Ray to Tennessee's electric chair (which has not been used since 1960). Only Ray proved stubborn. Until only a few days before his trial, he still believed he would outwit the executioner...
...Congratulations on your new department BEHAVIOR [Jan. 10]. For decades psychologists and I daresay other behavioral scientists-have been amused, puzzled and outraged by the tendency to consign or conceal their professional and scientific identity in other departments like MEDICINE, EDUCATION and BOOKS...
Offensive Coddling. While one such difficulty is unlikely to consign Rockefeller's prospects to the nether regions, it did occur at an awkward time for him. He undoubtedly won further sympathy from labor by refusing to break a strike, but to get his own party's nomination, he needs support from the Republican right-the very segment that would be most offended by his coddling of the sanitationmen's union. Richard Nixon, campaigning in New Hampshire, drew fervent crowd response by siding with Lindsay. "Breaking the law of the state," Nixon declared, "cannot and must...
Prompt action could easily forestal a sensational student response to the Committee's rebuff--the kind of well-publicized demonstration, already being proposed, that the Record American has been waiting four years to cover. Better still, it could consign future discussion of parietals to the inaudibility the issue so richly deserves...
...woman gainfully employed in Red China. To the men who care about China's future and want to bring it into the modern world of comparative well-being and technology, the revolution threatens to sweep all the painful achievements of nearly 20 years into the dustbin and consign China to a dark age of mindless communal litanies and Mao sun worshiping. To the men in the governments of the provinces far from the Politburo battles of Peking, the revolution brings trainloads of Red Guards usurping their authority and rocking tidy little boats that have been carefully caulked over...