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LEWIS F. POWELL JR. "I have never aspired to the Supreme Court," says Lewis Franklin Powell Jr., 64. Indeed, he so much preferred his own life as a distinguished Virginia lawyer that when his name was proposed for the court, during the Haynsworth-Carswell fracas, he wrote a letter to...
A struggle occurred, and a University and a Cambridge policeman, hired for the Sundance, came to Kidwell's aid. A fracas developed between a crowd of students at the dance and the police, and six additional Cambridge police arrived. They dragged the student out of the hall, according to students...
Young women, who three years ago were abandoning their flowing ao dai and silky hair for Western miniskirts and curls, once again dress in the traditional national tunics and wear their hair long. Student leaders, even if they speak good English or French, prefer talking to foreigners in Vietnamese- correcting...
Judge Viola ruled as inadmissible evidence a doctor's affidavit stating that Sedgwick's eardrum had been punctured during the fracas that followed his arrest. After several outbursts of laughter, Viola ruled that the affidavit could not be used because the doctor was not present to be cross-examined.
Luckily-for now anyway-Nixon has been thwarted. Murphy's losing campaign was not helped by the San Jose fracas, and there was little in the election returns to indicate a sweeping national desire for a police state. But we aren't about to get off that easy. Nixon's...