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After he escaped from the Missouri State Penitentiary in 1967, Ray's style changed; he seemed to have become a cum-laude graduate in criminality. Flush with unaccustomed cash and astute at espying loopholes in the law's vigilance, he rambled across the country using a collection of aliases. Then, after a .30-'06 bullet killed Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis on April 4, spurious radio messages sent Memphis police chasing the wrong way after Ray's 1966 white Mustang...
Botched Again. Law-enforcement men working on the case tend to discount such theories. A senior Justice Department lawyer is conducting an undercover search for leads to a plot among Memphis underworldlings, but local police and FBI agents-who first hunted the suspect as a member of a conspiracy-are working on the assumption that Ray, a known racist and always a loner in prison, killed alone...
...policy issues involved. Though there are some economic worries, the overriding immediate issue is simply who can best maintain order in France, and then, in the long run, solve the antagonisms and grievances that have been exposed in recent weeks. Fearing that De Gaulle will benefit from a backlash law-and-order vote, the Communists have redoubled their efforts to cool the situation. "Every time somebody gets socked, it's worth at least 100 and perhaps 1,000 votes to the Gaullists," said one ranking French Communist. To counter this, the Communists sought to project themselves as a patriotic...
...boards to lend textbooks to students in all private schools-including religious schools. Members of the board of education for both Rensselaer and Columbia counties argued that such programs violate the First Amendment ban on "establishment of religion." Last week the court upheld the state. New York's law, it said, was an aid to children, not religion...
...religious in their treatment of such subjects as evolution, the three dissenters. Justices Douglas, Fortas and Black, all heatedly argued that the First Amendment's rule was being badly compromised. Said Black: "It requires no prophet to foresee that on the argument used to support this law others could be upheld providing for funds to buy property on which to erect religious school buildings, to pay the salaries of religious school teachers, and finally to pick up all the bills for religious schools. I still subscribe to the belief that tax-raised funds cannot constitutionally be used to support...