Word: hunts
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...Soviets also tried harassment. Several times during last week's hunt, smaller Soviet vessels dashed at one of the searching U.S. ships, sometimes stopping dead in the water directly in front of it. At other times, Soviet ships would run closely parallel to the U.S. vessels, using the sounds of their engines and propellers to drown out reception from the U.S. underwater listening gear. The U.S. task force commander, Rear Admiral William A. Cockell Jr., told TIME's Tokyo bureau chief Edwin Reingold, "In some cases our ships have had to back off." When they did, their search...
...centralization and investing heavily in common stocks since the tenure of Treasurer George Putnam '49 began in 1973. With many universities searching for higher-yield investments after the inflationary years of the late '70s, Harvard has emerged as one of the heaviest and most diverse experimenters in the hunt for "modern" sources of funds...
...Jane Wheel, a former teacher, and Charles Delaney, a restaurant owner, overruled Morse and demanded that Hunt be tried for first-degree murder, a ruling now under appeal. Wheel and Delaney were exercising this legal authority in their roles as "assistant judges." Also known as side judges, these officials are ordinary citizens with no legal training who are elected to sit beside the state's law-trained superior court judges and share much of their judicial power. There are 28 of these citizen judges in Vermont, two in each of the state's 14 counties. They...
...Vermont Supreme Court ruled that it was a violation of defendants' right to due process for lay judges to rule on matters of law in criminal cases. Side judges, however, can still rule on questions of fact and sentencing (in an appeal to the Vermont Supreme Court, Gordon Hunt's attorney is currently challenging the side judges' right to interfere with plea bargaining...
DIED. James Wechsler, 67, liberal columnist and former editor of the New York Post; of cancer; in New York City. Wechsler was one of the first major journalists to oppose Senator Joseph McCarthy's witch-hunt tactics in the early 1950s. His signed columns (1961-83) often rang with moral indignation on behalf of the disadvantaged...