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...slight man, his pockets ajangle with quarters, strolled into the Criterion Restaurant in Manhattan Beach, Calif., one afternoon last week and ordered the house specialty, fried zucchini with Parmesan cheese. He then walked to the pay phone and dialed a number in New York City. As he chatted on and on, the telephone rang near by in Manhattan Beach police headquarters. The Brooklyn district attorney's office was calling to ask that the man on the phone in the coffee shop be arrested. The police hustled over, and Sergeant Jack Mair approached the caller from behind. "I tapped...
Whoever Jacobson phoned last week from the Criterion-police refuse to divulge the name of the person-kept him on the line long enough for authorities to trace the call and alert local police. This time Brooklyn District Attorney Eugene Gold will take special care to keep Jacobson under maximum security while he awaits trial on the latest charges against him: escape, forgery and tampering with public documents...
...back-alley butchers." Justice Potter Stewart chose to dramatize his dissent in the contracting-quotas case by reading it aloud. He accused the court majority in effect of endorsing "racism," and he practically spat out the word. Justice John Paul Stevens added that if race is to be a criterion for receiving public funds, the Government will have to start spelling out who belongs to what race. He bitterly suggested as a model a Nazi law defining who is to be considered...
Bail. Now the only criterion in noncapital cases for determining whether a suspect should be freed on bail is the likelihood that he will appear for trial. The Senate bill would also allow judges to detain a suspect if he seemed dangerous. The A C.L.U. says that such preventive detention would be a denial of the presumption of innocence. The House version would not change bail procedures...
...whole incident is especially ironic in view of President Bok's recent letter to the Harvard community, stating that non-academic criterion should play no part in the appointment process," Patterson said...