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Only One Couple. The logic of it all seemed overwhelming, and few disciplines pay as much homage to logic as do the law and math. But neither works right with the wrong premises. Hearing an appeal of Malcolm Collins' conviction, the California Supreme Court recently turned up some serious defects, including the fact that not even the odds were all they seemed...
...begin with, the prosecution failed to supply evidence that "any of the individual probability factors listed were even roughly accurate." Moreover, the factors were not shown to be fully independent of one another as they must be to satisfy the mathematical law; the factor of a Negro with a beard, for instance, overlaps the possibility that the bearded Negro may be part of an interracial couple. The 12 million to 1 figure, therefore, was just "wild conjecture." In addition, there was not complete agreement among the witnesses about the characteristics in question. "No mathematical equation," added the court, "can prove...
...editors of the two papers both owned by Scripps-Howard, it is almost incomprehensible that they are the targets of such criticism. Ever since the 1954 Supreme Court decision banning segregation in the schools they have urged upholding the law of the land. Press-Scimitar Editor Edward J. Meeman was a champion of Negro rights from the 1930s until he retired in the early '60s. Both current editors Frank Ahlgren of the Commercial Appeal and Charles Schneider of the Press-Scimitar, are members of the city's biracial commission, which has tried to smooth the way for peaceful...
Victorian Drama. That neat little lie was too much for Barnard. Although the Times did not use Linda's real name in its story, the school had no trouble identifying her, and promptly charged her with violating the residence regulations. "I'm old enough by law to live anywhere and with anyone without my parents' permission," said Linda-and promptly turned the charge into a crusade for cohabitation. She and Peter, a draft resister who has dropped out of Columbia, began cranking out mimeographed leaflets calling the case a "Victorian drama." They also distributed questionnaires asking other...
...Free Cigarettes. Sears is by no means the only employer willing to go beyond the letter of the law, which merely requires that draftees and reservists be given a comparable job and continued seniority when they return...