Word: laws
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Shaw was branded a raving lunatic, and in fact his provisions were ruled invalid in law. An appeal from the court's decision elicited a compromise agreement from the three residuary legatees, and a public competition was announced. Of the 467 entries, four were judged worthy of sharing the prize money. The design finally adopted, however--an ingeniously logical and space-saving system of 48 characters--was largely that of Kingsley Read. And the bi-alphabetic edition of Androcles was duly published in 1962. Whether the Shaw Alphabet achieves widespread use remains to be seen...
Matter of Morale. Underlying the highly publicized raid was a long-running Synanon campaign to establish complete jurisdiction over its patients, free of state control. Dr. Victor Vogel, chairman of the Narcotic Authority, finally felt compelled to carry the law's test requirements. By rounding up the two parolees, he hoped to establish that his agency has authority over all civilly committed addicts in the state-including those at Synanon. But Synanon President Jack Hurst, 36, believes that a California Court of Appeals has excused his parolee patients from further "clean" tests. He has advised them not to submit...
...scenic view. He also tried a more unusual tack. He demanded added damages for the nuisance caused by the traffic noises at his doorstep. Impressed by his arguments, a lower court awarded him $37,000. The state appealed. Dennison, it said, deserved less money because there was no law that allowed him to collect such noise damages. Last week, in a surprising 4-to-3 decision, New York's Court of Appeals upheld the lower court and declared that noise was indeed a compensable injury...
SHORTLY after midnight on July 25, 1967, at the height of the Detroit riots, police and National Guard troops seized the annex of the Algiers Motel. They were searching for snipers. Two hours later, having found no snipers, the law enforcement officials left the Algiers Motel. Only the bodies of three black youths remained in the annex...
...recognition of the importance of sex in interracial strife, vignettes of the lives of blacks in cities, descriptions of the biases in law enforcement agencies and in courts all redeem many of the shortcomings of this book. But the inherent structural difficulties cannot be overcome...