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...Crockett--The Idler...
Hayes, 50, started out as a pop singer. In 1955, he launched the bestselling Ballad of Davy Crockett. Meanwhile, Susan was growing up as a second-generation soap actress in Los Angeles. Her mother, Elizabeth Harrower, was a veteran of dozens of radio serials. Susan played a villain on Lassie, trying to poison the popular collie. Recalls Susan: "A few boys threatened to beat me up." Later she graduated to small parts in soaps, but her career was stalled by the politicization of her love life. She was dating a right-wing newscaster and campaigning hard for Barry Goldwater...
...ample company among the recorders under police attack. High on the list is George W. Crockett Jr., 64, a black attorney who once served four months for contempt following a Smith Act trial in which he defended eleven accused Communists. Elected to the bench in 1966, he set up court in police headquarters following a 1969 shootout at a black church and immediately began releasing prisoners who were being held without counsel. Now presiding judge for a term of one year, Crockett is still tough on the cops, but has come to appear conservative by comparison with newer, still more...
...still a valid basis for treating persons differently under the law? Yes, said a unanimous Utah Supreme Court. "We realize that as a court made up of men there is a possibility of masculine bias," conceded Justice J. Allan Crockett for the five-member panel. But noting such "widely accepted" ideas as earlier female maturity and male breadwinning responsibility, the court upheld a state law under which males are considered minors until age 21 and females only until 18. In Georgia, however, Trial Judge Charles A. Wofford struck down the state's laws on alimony because the requirement...
...large blocks of stock were owned by Greenspun and Crockett. According to the indictment, Maheu urged Crockett to sell his Air West holdings, assuring him that he would be "made whole" for any losses. Similarly, according to pretrial testimony in the Maheu libel case, Greenspun was assured by an associate of Maheu that "Mr. Hughes isn't going to let you get caught holding the bag" by selling Air West stock at a low price. Around Dec. 31, 1968, the Government charges, Crockett, Greenspun and Charnay unloaded 46,000 snares of Air West stock, or slightly more than...