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...know that it was wrong. But since 1954 the law and psychiatry have been wrestling with an attempt by the U.S. Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia to liberalize the definition of "sanity" as a measure of criminal responsibility. Under this court's Durham Rule,* an accused is not responsible, and therefore not required to stand trial, if at the time of his crime he was suffering from a "diseased or defective mental condition" and the crime was a "product" of this condition...
Inevitably, the sitdowns washed up some familiar flotsam: the duck-tailed, sideburned swaggerers, the rednecked hatemongers, the Ku Klux Klan. Stores in Durham, Greensboro and Rock Hill, S.C. were closed after getting anonymous telephoned bomb threats. Just as inevitably, the national pressure groups arrived on the scene and helped organize the sitdowns in other Southern cities. Five days after the Greensboro sitdown began, a representative of the Congress of Racial Equality turned up in Greensboro and Durham, announced that CORE was taking over, and advised the sitters to concentrate on just one chain-Woolworth...
JAMES MOREY Durham...
...adult Americans sees most printed words as mere squiggly lines, and is, to U.S. census takers, a "functional illiterate." One such is Nara High, 64. of Durham, N.C. Instead of going to school, she went to work at eight in a textile mill, now lives alone in retirement, mostly watching television. "Oh, I would love to write my name," says she. "It would mean so much...
This week Nara High's precious TV set becomes more than a soporific as she and 53 other Durham illiterates prepare for an exciting venture. At 6 a.m., four days a week, they will turn on their TV sets for a 30-minute lesson. The aim: to give them a fourth-grade education in reading and writing by midsummer...