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...swimmers will compete tomorrow afternoon against the University of New Hampshire at Durham. "They're much better than Wheaton," says Downey, "but we're a very strong team too. Each week our times get better and better," she added. "We have to be optimistic...
...they have learned into testimony that meets legal requirements. The M'Naghten rule, first announced in 1843 and still part of California's standard, asks whether the defendant knew "the nature and quality of his act" and was able to distinguish right from wrong. In 1954 the Durham rule, formulated by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, greatly broadened the psychiatric defense by declaring that a person is not criminally responsible "if his unlawful act was the product of mental disease or mental defect." In a refinement of both rules, the Model Penal Code of 1962-now essentially...
John R. Rice Durham...
Airstruck since boyhood, Wheeler chose flying over the family business; his father, John H. Wheeler, is president of Durham's prosperous Mechanics and Farmers Bank. Young Wheeler left North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University after a year, enrolled in flying school in Oklahoma, and got a commercial license at 19. At 22, he was hired by Piedmont as one of its youngest-and first black-pilots. A few years later, he took a leave of absence to start a charter flying service, partly with loans from the Small Business Administration. In August 1973 he drew up a schedule...