Word: crookedly
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...petition denouncing the judges for "selecting the two most vulgar films, Alfie and Signore e Signori." Shrugged Judge Loren: "You can't please everybody." Agreed departing Judge Ustinov, relieved to be relieved of his assignment: "I am going to take a sabbatical and go back to being a crook...
...Crook's plan, which is still in its earliest stage and could not begin before 1967, would cost approximately $50,000 to $*00,000. This money would be used in part to bring a "critic, scholar, or artist" to Harvard to create a museum exhibit. It would also pay for a summer program coordinator to work part time during the winter academic year and full-time during the summer...
...worst, Cloportes is a squashy but grimly amusing study of insect behavior. At best, it pins down some first-rate talent. France's Singing Idol Charles Aznavour wryly impersonates a crook-turned-cultist whose swami act is last seen floating in the Seine, and Veteran Actress Françhise Rosay rabbets in some surprises as a hardened crone who rents out high-powered burglary tools by the hour. Any doubt that the female is the deadlier of the species is dispelled by shapely Irina Demick, who shows up rather late as an art gallery receptionist all abustle with...
...vast majority of arrested Americans-the poor in pocket, mind or spirit. For the Fifth Amendment does not automatically command police to inform anyone of his rights; the suspect himself must know those rights in order to exercise them. Ironically, this is no problem for the big-time crook with an attorney in attendance. For the suspect without a lawyer, however, interrogation is the most crucial phase of his entire case. And 60% of U.S. criminal defendants cannot afford lawyers...
After the Coleman verdict, five Lowndes Negroes led by Mrs. Gardenia White filed suit in federal court charging that County Jury Commissioner Bruce Crook, two associates, and Mrs. Kelley Coleman, clerk of the local circuit court (and Tom's cousin by marriage) had violated the 14th Amendment's equal protection and due process clauses. Last week the three-judge court in Montgomery upheld the Negroes' complaint, found Lowndes County guilty of "gross, systematic exclusion of members of the Negro race from jury duty." Though 80.7% of the county's 15,417 population is Negro, the court...