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Homicides by firearms-not counting shooting in self-defense-have long run at an average rate of around 40 a year in Kentucky's Harlan County (pop. 71,750). But last week, for the first time in 132 years, the circuit court clerk posted a criminal docket (for May) without a single murder case...
Bell Syndicate's Drew Pearson, introduced, in recognition of his libel docket, as "the only man . . . with more suits than Hart Schaffner & Marx," rolled with the attack. He realized, he said, that some "indefensible things" had been published by columnists, "and I myself have sinned. I'd like to forget a number of things." But alert columnists have kept the lid on graft, have "been able ... to give to newspapers some things which they would not otherwise...
Taking them in order the first thing on the docket is the NCAA conference out in Dallas. There were two noticeable outgrowths of this meeting, the abolishment of the sanity code and the ruling against television. The decisions are already history, but for a fuller explanation we dropped over to the H.A.A. offices the other day to gather the report of Harvard's representative, the honorable William J. Bingham...
...year-old lawyer had added injury to insult when he dared run for governor of Buenos Aires Province against a Perón-backed candidate. After his arrest, Balbin boldly insisted on a trial, but one embarrassed judge after another managed to get the ticklish case off his docket; meanwhile, Balbin was shunted from jail to jail. Finally, an obscure...
District Attorney George E. Thompson would not comment on whether or not the Poon will make the docket even at that time. "We're still waiting for more information," he said last night. "We want to clear this thing up as soon as possible," he added...