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...live sheep there. Under a law passed in 1864, animal thieving in Idaho is still grand larceny, so the Indians were hauled off to district court in Moscow. There, Prosecutor J. Morey O'Donnell put their worries too quickly to rest. They were lucky in having the most lenient judge in the state, said O'Donnell-and if they pleaded guilty, he certainly wouldn't hang them...
Only in the matter of handkerchiefs were London's arbiters of gentlemanly elegance inclined to be lenient. Of course two handkerchiefs a day ("one to show, one to blow") was still the ironclad rule, but in a pinch, Savile Row's spokesmen agreed, a hard-pressed gentleman might be forgiven for using yesterday's shower for today's blower...
Congressmen said that it was excessive abuses of the present lenient system which has existed for many years that led to the current "reforms." The most famous case is the ownership of the Mueller Macaroni Co. by New York University. The courts did not wait for legislative action, ruling early this month that N.Y.U. must pay back taxes on its profits...
Four viewpoints on the much-discussed Student Council situation will go out to the College tonight when two Council members, the "lenient" Council Abolitionist leader and a CRIMSON editor meet in a round table discussion over WHRB...
Students traveling in Europe this summer will have the advantage of more lenient import and export customs limits. A new ruling by the Tourism Committee of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation allows the importation and exportation--without duty--of two cartons of cigarettes, two pints of perfume, two quarts of spirits, and $400 worth of souvenirs and purchases...