Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they're honest Dixiecrats.") He must stretch all the way from an idealist's demand for nothing less than justice ("On the racial issue, you can't be a little bit wrong any more than you can be a little bit pregnant or a little bit dead") to a practical lawyer's acceptance of what he can get when he knows he can get no more. So stretched, his tense personality reflects the tensions of his job and his time and his nation. And somehow, also, his personality reflects the symmetry of the Constitution he serves...
...dead reckoning that oldtime sailors used in bad weather when they could not shoot the sun has a modern counterpart "in Ryan Aeronautical Co.'s recently announced long-range air navigation system. The sailors estimated their speed, leeway and the effect of ocean currents to give them their rough position. The Ryan Automatic Navigator does much the same thing by making a fix on some object whose position is known (e.g., the Pentagon). While still within radar range, the instruments tell the ground speed, etc., by radar observations. With increasing distance, the instruments operate on their own, by sensing...
Another new gadget that does dead reckoning for aircraft is made by Ford Instrument Co. Simpler than the Ryan job, it estimates the effect of the wind in advance. Then it records the air speed and the course the airplane follows. It puts the whole thing together and figures out the airplane's position on a map. Average accuracy on a 1,000-mile flight: within about six miles...
That tore it. Alabama's Governor Gordon Persons was forced by public opinion to declare martial law. The National Guard took over. Phenix City was as dead as any 100-year-old harlot ought to be. During the next six months, a grand jury voted 741 indictments, including three for the murder of Lawyer Patterson. The accused: Chief Deputy Sheriff Albert Fuller, convicted as the triggerman, was sentenced to life in prison; County Solicitor Arch Ferrell was acquitted of complicity; Alabama's Attorney General Silas Garrett, still in office at the time of the murder...
...honor when he drove the other widow to her death-and besides, the lady didn't commit suicide after all. She was mur dered by one of Jeff's jealous girl friends. "The past," sighs Joan, as she clings to him, "is buried under a lot of dead years...