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Eric Crone exploited the Lions' loose coverage, throwing 10-yard down and outs to Bill Craven and scrambling past Columbia's token rush. Craven, a second string sophomore who should start next week, ran very well and made a great touchdown catch...
...last year; in 1970, it will probably reach 15,000. Now Secret Service agents have another reason to be nervous. A three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, divided two to one, has narrowed the grounds for conviction. The majority opinion, written by Judge J. Braxton Craven Jr., held that a threat to the President could lead to a verdict of guilty "only if made with the present intention to do injury to the President...
...court reversed the conviction of Ronald Patillo, a security guard at the Norfolk naval shipyard. Craven agreed that Patillo had uttered a true threat. However, said the judge, the element of "willfulness" was lacking. According to another guard, Patillo had said: "I'm going to kill President Nixon, and I'm going to Washington to do it." Nonetheless, Craven termed the conviction a danger to First Amendment rights. "Americans nurtured upon the concept of free speech," he said, "are not accustomed to controlling their tongues to avoid criminal indictment." Craven noted that the court might take a different...
Justice Department attorneys were quick to condemn Craven's decision. "This guts the statute," said one. Therefore the Justice Department is considering an appeal of Craven's ruling...
Every one of the lovers and strangers is good, and there are a handful who are truly exceptional. Gig Young, who looks as if aged in alcohol, plays the suburban husband with just the right touch of craven satyriasis. Anne Jackson portrays his paramour with fine shades of comic realism, and Bob Dishy lunges about hilariously in pursuit of the superbly addled Marian Hailey. Harry Guardino plays his character with broad sympathy and a fine eye for detail, right down to his onyx pinkie ring...