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...Freeman) ordering federal judges in New York, Connecticut and Vermont to use the American Law Institute's new insanity test. By that test, "a person is not responsible for criminal conduct if at the time of such conduct, as a result of men tal disease or defect, he lacks substantial capacity either to appreciate the wrongfulness of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of law." Last month the same appellate court reversed Shelter's conviction and ordered a new trial in which he can seek acquittal by reason of Freeman-style insanity...
...future, Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman has made it clear that U.S. wheat reserves have dwindled to their lowest levels in years and that India cannot count on the U.S. for more than half the 11 million tons that it will need next year. The day of the automatic long-term commitment is gone, and Washington seems inclined to take a look from month to month at what it can spare...
...Faith, Hope & Parity" [Oct. 21] you write: "The biggest shock to farmers was Freeman's gaffe in March expressing pleasure at a slight-if short-lived-drop in food prices. Never before had a U.S. Secretary of Agriculture publicly applauded a decrease in farm income...
...boom-and-bust prices, were essential to the best interests of both farmer and consumer. Never have I said that I favored lower farm prices. On the contrary, I have spent a good share of my life fighting for better prices and higher income for the farmer. ORVILLE L. FREEMAN Secretary...
...Thousand Days Arthur Schlesinger called the Minnesota delegation the key to Kennedy's victory in the 1960 National Democratic convention. The D.F.L.'s national power was graphically shown as the governor, Orville Freeman, now Secretary of Agriculture, nominated Kennedy, Senator Eugene McCarthy nominated Stevenson, and Humphrey remained a candidate himself...