Word: laws
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...Court last year in In Re Gault clearly stated that the Bill of Rights is not "for adults alone"; in light of that, the judges were persuaded that the Sixth Amendment trial-by-jury guarantee applies to juveniles in federal courts. They also objected on the basis that the law involves a "rock or whirlpool" choice. "Where a reward is held out to an individual for the waiver of a constitutional right," wrote Judge Harold Tyler, "or a greater threat posed for choosing to assert it, any waiver may be said to have been extracted in an impermissible manner...
...shutdown of the London gold pool and the move to the split-price system since British devaluation. Italy and Belgium, restive at the growing drain on their reserves, remained in the pool only at U.S. prodding. Timing the switch presented delicate problems. By waiting for repeal of a 1945 law requiring a 25% gold backing for the currency, the U.S. could muster another $10.4 billion of gold for the defense of the dollar abroad. By discomfitingly small margins, the measure squeaked through Congress just in time. Last week, as the scratch of President Johnson's pen abolished the gold...
...male actor on the strength of his performance as the mulish redneck sheriff of In the Heat of the Night. It was a job of acting marked by a craftsman's meticulous attention to detail: the assured swagger of the small-town cop who knows he is The Law, the wobbly waddle in the sun that evokes languidity induced by oppressive heat. To achieve the effect, Steiger relied on his standard technique: total immersion. "I've never seen a man become a role so much," recalls Director Norman Jewison. "Two weeks after we started the picture...
...tragedy, as White correctly points out, was that with all his love of liberty and order, he could not trust himself to trust the people, and so attempted to twist the law into the vehicle for his ambition. This is the lesson that Journalist White appears to offer today's rulers. "When men are treated as God, they begin to feel they are God," says White. Absolute power, he suggests, does not merely corrupt; it invites paranoia. The real virtue of this crisp exercise is that it is put in terms that a historian can respect and even...
...reasoning with respect to the Fellowships was similar to that of the Law School with respect to re-admittance of draft resistors," said Gunness. The Law School announced yesterday that it would reserve places for students who have refused the draft and gone to jail. The Committee felt that service or resistance are unavoidable circumstances and should not be cause for denying a student his fellowship...