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...manner of death. Furthermore, in some areas the coroner is not required to be a physician, and undertakers have, on occasion, assumed the position. A medical examiner, on the other hand, must be a doctor, and has no independent authorities. He can only report his findings to the district attorney...
...passing sentence, U.S. District Court Judge Francis J. W. Ford told Miss Bieberman, "A girl with a brilliant career ahead of her such as you is on the wrong track. If I were you I would disassociate myself from Dr. Leary's group and think for myself...
...second demand of the Berkeley strikers calls for the university to drop charges against those arrested last week and to refrain from taking disciplinary action against any of the students involved. Even if the university were prepared to ask that charges be dropped, the Alameda County District Attorney's office would ignore the request, so that part of the second demand is impracticable and irrelevant. But for the Berkeley administration to compound the situation with discipline of its own would be to treat the strikers as criminals. No step would be more sure to stall a solution to the present...
...Texas, many Mexican-Americans deserted their Democratic habits, or simply stayed away from the polls, to help elect Republican Senator John Tower, as a protest against the conservative Democratic candidate, Waggoner Carr. In Michigan, Governor George Romney carried Macomb County, a district full of prosperous second-generation Poles, by an easy 18,000-vote margin over Zolton Ferency, "the man with the ethnic name." Perhaps the most clear-cut demonstration came in Chicago's heavily Polish Eleventh District, which has been represented for years by a professional Pole, Representative Roman Pucinski. Pucinski is part owner of a Polish-language...
This hypothesis was originated by a commission assistant counsel, Aden Specter, now district attorney of Philadelphia, after Warren investigators became puzzled over the timing of Oswald's shots. After a frame-by-frame analysis of a movie, film taken by a tourist named Abraham Zapruder, commissioners decided that 1.8 seconds-at most-had elapsed between Kennedy's first visible response to being hit in the neck and John Connally's first measurable reaction to a bullet striking him. The early assumption had been that the two were hit by separate shots. But since Oswald's bolt...