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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to police, Smith's knowledge of such behavior may have been more than academic. Last month he was caught allegedly breaking into a parked van and brandishing a gun to boot. When cops searched his car, they found a mask, guns and burglar's tools. The next day a longtime friend of Smith's, Harold Jones Jr., a librarian for a Philadelphia high school, was arrested leaving Smith's house with several pounds of marijuana. Subsequently, another county charged Smith with stealing $53,000 from a Sears, Roebuck store last year...
...York City and elsewhere. This amounted to an imposition of martial law. In a landmark judgment, Chief Justice Roger Taney threw out the case of one John Merryman, a Southern sympathizer who had been convicted of treason by a military court. Merryman appealed to Justice Taney, who found that Lincoln had sought to suspend habeas corpus when it was "perfectly clear under the Constitution that he had no such power." In a subsequent Civil War case, the Supreme Court found that the military had had no business trying a political agitator named Lambdin Milligan in Indiana when civil courts were...
...build the most elegant society the world had ever seen up to that time in Europe . . . But it was a consumptive society, and when the Spaniards went through their gold, they invested nothing-and economically they entered the 17th century barefoot. The question for us is: Have we found a way to build an affluent society? Are we putting enough back into the system so that we can assure our capacity to produce a high standard of living for our heirs...
...elsewhere feel at least as strongly about taxes. But, he adds, the revolt is not an unqualified conservative backlash or a mindless desire to dismantle government. It is also not a code word for racial prejudice. Nor is it a soak-the-rich movement. Quite the contrary, Yankelovich has found that most poorer Americans still believe that they have a chance to achieve wealth and they do not want the opportunity removed. Nor do they feel excessively jealous of those who have already made it, since they believe luck, to a large degree, determines who has good fortune and their...
...dynamo of an executive who made such a mark in a 20-year career at International Business Machines Corp. that Jimmy Carter considered appointing her his Commerce Secretary before she took herself out of the running. Last week Jane Cahill Pfeiffer, 45, found something more to her liking. NBC President and Chief Executive Fred Silverman named her the network's chairman, succeeding Old Pro Julian Goodman, 56, who moves to chairman of the executive committee...