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Richard Nixon's declaration, penned as he drafted a speech for delivery this week to the American Academy of Political and Social Science, was a momentous one: in its simplest terms it meant that the U.S. was prepared to use the full weight of its prestige toward establishing the rule of law among nations to achieve world peace...
...midflight Eastland recessed the hearing so everybody could go out to watch the Washington Senators open the season against the Baltimore Orioles (Senators 9, Orioles 2), which meant that Justice Stewart would be back again this week...
...volume army history of the war is still being written, Taylor reports, with about 50 now published. Now part of the army system, and utilized most recently in Korea, the "biggest thing of its kind in U.S. records" meant a great deal to him. "I am very proud to have been in on it," he says, recalling even today the tension of London under V-2 fire and buzz bomb attacks. He emphasizes the loneliness felt by each individual in combat, alone in a foxhole or behind a solitary bush, and relates that he then learned how difficult the piecing...
Neither case involved double jeopardy under the Constitution, ruled the majority in both decisions (5-4, 6-3). Central finding: the Constitution's Bill of Rights -including the "double jeopardy" Fifth Amendment-is meant to be binding on the Federal Government only; similar U.S. constitutional rights apply to the states only under the clause in the 14th Amendment,* which provides that no state may deprive a man of "life, liberty or property" without "due process...
...when they won't listen to me." To the four Crosby cutups (Gary, 25, Twins Philip and Dennis, 24, Lindsay, 21), Dad's mournful tune came as a stunning surprise. Said Cinemactor Lindsay: "I don't know why he made the statement. No one meant to do any wrong, and we're all working hard...