Word: griffin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...court ruled that state prosecutors can no longer comment to jurors on the failure of criminal defendants to take the stand. Eddie D. Griffin, who remained mute during his trial for a 1961 rape-murder in Los Angeles, had a previous rape-robbery record going back to 1944. Had he testified, the D.A. could have raked up every detail. Griffin was convicted nonetheless after the D.A. pointedly noted his silence, a practice permissible in six states, including California. In decisions dating to 1908, the Supreme Court had refused to bar such comment in state courts (federal courts have barred...
...challenger. The I.U.E.'s five-man board of trustees counted the ballots and announced that Carey had won. Jennings filed a federal court suit, charging fraud. Many rank and filers also complained to the Labor Department-and last month Government investigators, acting under the Landrum-Griffin Act, subpoenaed the I.U.E. election records. After completing their examination, the investigators said that Carey had really lost the election by 23,316 votes, instead of winning by 2,193 as the trustees, Carey loyalists, had claimed...
...SCORPION ON STONE by Gwyn Griffin. 219 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston...
...fashionable fatuity to pity the poor underprivileged natives. But these spirited stories by Gwyn Griffin, a white novelist (Something of an Achievement) who has spent most of his life in black Africa, are ironically concerned with the poor white man who survives as an unwelcome guest in lands where he once was master. Composition Piece examines through a black man's eyes "the new, post-war group of colonial administrators, liberal in opinions, immensely tolerant, who want to lend one books and dedicate their lives to one's assistance." Dawn at Reyn's Cop describes how history...
...Lions' top player is 6-1 forward Neil Fraber, a second team All-Ivy selection last season; he is averaging 19.3 points per game. Ken Benoit (11.0 per game) and Stan Felsinger (17.4) are a good pair of guards. The Lions lack height; 6-4 Mike Griffin and 6-5 Art Klink are the only big men on their starting five...