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...Ford spoke, the safety furor continued on other fronts. General Motors admitted that the owners of 15,000 Buick Specials in the 1963 series sold with oversize tires might find that the tires can be scraped by the inside of the fender. And automakers continued to call back past products for new safety fixes. Items...
...years of isolation, continuous anti-West propaganda and the ominous presence of 22 Soviet divisions, the strongest political emotion in East Germany remains a fervent desire for reunification with West Germany. The strength of that desire was reflected all across the walled-in country last week as a furor broke out over the question of closer contacts with West Germany...
...never forget she is a woman, is awed by women who can. She just returned from India, where she followed Prim Minister Indira Gandhi for four weeks. "No one thinks it's remarkable that she is Prime Minister," Mrs. Friedan says, pulling at an earing. "No is raising a furor. Finance Minister Desai never attacked her because of her sex, primarily because anti-women tactics wouldn't have worked. Their criticism of her are of her political abilities." Mrs. Friedan paused and smiled. "It was so grand watching her move about with her ministers. She is Prime Minister...
Significantly, it was Traynor who also eased the furor over Mapp by arguing in 1961 that the exclusionary rule should not be made retroactive. Its purpose, he noted, was to deter lawless police action from then on-not to help free prisoners who had been convicted on previously admissible evidence. Last year the Supreme Court followed precisely that reasoning in Linkletter v. Louisiana, which ruled out Mapp's retroactivity...
...treatment. They pointed to the fact that Puerto Rico, which was anxious to have Phillips, was represented by the Washington law firm of Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas, a close friend of Lyndon Johnson's. Phillips' attorney, moreover, was former Interior Secretary Oscar L. Chapman. Despite the furor, Johnson finally approved the quota change last month after Puerto Rican officials pointed out that, among 12 oil companies, only Phillips had agreed to their joint venture and reinvestment requirements...