Word: homelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...charge, but instead was retried-and convicted-on both charges. > In a California decision, the I. most important of the three, the court reversed the conviction of a numismatist named Ted Chimel, who was sentenced to prison in 1966 for stealing rare coins. When police arrested Chimel at his home in Santa Ana, Calif., they examined the premises without a search warrant and found some of the stolen coins. Such searches are common. Many police departments, seeking to avoid the necessity of justifying a search warrant before a judge, wait to arrest a suspect at his home, then claim that...
...five. Her father died when she was twelve, and her mother, as Judy remarked bitterly years later, "was no good for anything except to create cha os and fear. She was the worst - the real-life Wicked Witch of the West." The nearest thing to a home that Judy had was the MGM lot in Hollywood, where - between long agonizing hours before the camera - Louis B. Mayer sent her to the studio school with the rest of his adolescent stars...
...volume of sales-discounting inflation-has not risen at all over the past year. The evidence suggests that consumer demand, which has been partially responsible for inflation, is moderating. And no wonder. The U.S. is currently in the midst of the longest period of non-growth in real take-home pay since World...
Three Days of Grace. The intent of the law is to enable consumers to shop around for the best credit terms avail able. Regulation "Z" also strikes an in direct blow at credit rackets. Some home-repair contractors, electricians, plumbers and even morticians have customarily required that the customer sign an agreement giving the creditor a lien on his home. Now the creditor must not only inform the consumer that there is such a lien but give him three business days after signing to think over the deal and cancel it if he chooses - a requirement that could create...
Double Injustice. Though the Japanese complain about the injustice of textile quotas, they maintain a closed-door policy at home, shutting out considerable amounts of U.S. goods and capital. Two years ago, a committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development reported that "no other advanced country confronts the foreign investor with the sort of obstacles presented by Japan...