Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Those whose desire for vengeance overcomes their respect for the legal system share the guilt of Oswald's murderer. Their attitudes encouraged the killing by spreading contempt for orderly judicial procedure. As our society must allow a Lee Oswald his right to speak, so it should have guaranteed him his day in court...
...Vegas or Puerto Rico just to roll a few legal dice? Grand Bahama Island, a mere 75 miles off Miami, has been granted a ten-year license for a gambling casino, and now Huntington Hartford, 52, wants similar licenses granted to the rest of the Bahamas, including one small dot named Paradise Island (H. Hartford prop.) just off Nassau. It would solve a lot of problems, he says. First he would immediately build 1,000 first-class hotel rooms on Paradise, thus providing jobs for unemployed Bahamians. Then he would give 50% of the net gambling profit to the government...
...Denver, though, or in many another U.S. city where police are practicing a new and legal gimmick for encouraging confessions. The standard sobriety tests-picking up poker chips from the floor, walking a painted line, touching the nose while the eyes are closed-are all recorded by a movie camera and a sound track. When the case comes to trial, the film is produced as the prosecution's most persuasive evidence...
Vatican Intervention. Sarita's death created a legal battle that eventually forced the Vatican to intervene. Bishop Garriga sued to regain his old position as a member of the foundation. Sarita's cousin also sued for reinstatement, and got an injunction preventing Brother Leo, Grace and associates from touching any of the estate's funds. In addition, he demanded an accounting of $1,000,000 that Brother Leo had withdrawn from Texas banks, apparently to finance the South American monasteries...
Academic commentators have traditionally concentrated on the legal governmental structure of cities and have avoided city politics as if it were somehow too sordid to warrant scholarly attention. Recently, a few scholars such as Oscar Handlin, Wallace Sayre, and Herbert Kaufman have tried to demonstrate the importance of politics in urban life, but none has done it on as large a scale or with as much skill as Banfield and Wilson...