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...State official pointed out yesterday that the attorney general could indict several undergraduate organizations here if he wanted to interpret the law "literally." He would not elaborate...
Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas knows the political risk of discussing racial tension. But last week, after a Cook County grand jury failed to indict Cicero, Ill. race rioters, and indicted instead the lawyer for a Negro mob victim, Douglas spoke a few plain, courageous words...
Eberstadt raced to Forrestal's home in Georgetown and found Forrestal mumbling: "I'm a disgrace to my friends. I have failed. The Department of Justice is going to indict me on Monday." Eberstadt whisked him to Hobe Sound, Fla. in an Air Force Constellation, where Bob Lovett took charge. "They're after me," Forrestal kept repeating. For a few days he swam and sunned himself and seemed to rally. Then one night he scratched his wrist with a razor blade. Psychiatrists ordered him to Bethesda Hospital and there, seven weeks later, he killed himself...
SEQUELS Worse Than The Cicero Riots Edmund Burke said that he did not know how to indict a whole people; but last week the Cook County, ILL. grand jury found a way of misusing the power of indictment to disgrace a whole metropolis...
Then came the crusher. Last week the grand jury not only refused to indict Ham Reid but, in an astounding bit of legal beagling, it filed slander charges against three P.A.G. members and five American Pressmen, including Ken Dixon and Publisher Shearman. The accusation: they had "defamed" three of the local gamblers as well as Sheriff Reid, the district attorney, other officials...