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...that the decision he was about to hand down for an angrily divided Su preme Court was sure to echo through law-enforcement agencies across the land. For the court was reversing the' convictions of four confessed crimi nals: Kidnaper-Rapist Ernesto Miranda, Mugger Roy Stewart, Stickup Man Mi chael Vignera and Bank Robber Carl Westover. It was a decision that seemed to invite controversy, but Warren in sisted that the court was not offering any innovations. It was merely reaffirming any criminal defendant's basic constitutional right to the assistance of a lawyer and the freedom from...
Belmont Stakes, the last of the Triple Crown races and-at 11 mi.-the longest. That is at least 1 mi. farther than most race horses want...
...show figuring that he could not possibly finish worse than third out of eleven horses. They would have been wiser to play the market. Kauai King took the lead on the backstretch, held it all the way around the final turn-but then, with exactly 1 mi. still to go, he seemed to run into a river of molasses. A 5-1 shot named Amberoid, who couldn't even win a $12,500 claiming race a year ago, went on to win by 21 lengths, take down first money of $117,700. Staggering all the way through the stretch...
...embarks on nationhood, Guyana has plenty going for it: rich bauxite deposits, extensive timberlands, and an excellent climate for rice and sugar cane. But it may have even more going against it. Fully two-thirds of the country's 83,000-sq.-mi. land area is being contested by its neighbors, Venezuela and Dutch Surinam. It has a chronic and crippling lack of skilled manpower and cash. It has critical unemployment, now more than 20%. It also has Cheddi Jagan. As a rabble-rousing Premier between 1961 and 1964, Jagan not only wrecked the colony's economy...
...Responding to the sting of Brumfield's bat, his tongue lolling out of his mouth, he finished with a fantastic burst that carried him to a 1¾-length victory. Time: 1 min. 55 2/5 sec., second-fastest clocking since the Preakness was lengthened to 1 3/16 mi...