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This criterion proved to be quite a shock. The Committee's grounds for allowing an appeal hearing, "compelling evidence" were outrageous. The Committee had set more stringent grounds for granting an appeal hearing than it had previously stipulated for acquittal. This initial outrageous requirement was exacerbated by more Committee mumbo-jumpo...

Author: By Sanford Kreisberg, | Title: Inside the CRR- The Committee in Person | 2/12/1971 | See Source »

...meeting is a waste of time. First Hughes feigns ignorance of its purpose. Then Zeckendorf cuts through the mumbo-jumbo and makes an offer. Hughes rejects it out of hand but has what he wants: a free appraisal of his property's value from one of the nation's most astute and best-publicized business brains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Black and the Red | 9/14/1970 | See Source »

Rosemary's Baby Comes to Main Street? Not quite. There is plenty of mumbo jumbo and even a climactic cannibal dinner. But Author Rose is playing for more than easy goose bumps and the thrills of chic Satanism. One of the hill-bound families has a son named Alan, and the novel comes to revolve around Gypsy's struggle for Alan's soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: TWELVE RAVENS by Howard Rose. 405 pages. Macmillan. $6.95. | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

...CRIMSON has joined the fold, without even taking the trouble to erect the false front of sociological mumbo-jumbo as the Times and the Ed Review are always careful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SDS to Demonstrate Against Assembly Ban | 4/22/1970 | See Source »

...store managers and six as warehouse supervisors, but it agreed to stock some 25 black products, including Grove Fresh orange juice, Mumbo Barbecue Sauce, Staff of Life bread, Joe Louis milk and King Solomon spray deodorant, and to give them prominent display. A. & P. also agreed to use black-owned companies for its janitor services, garbage removal, and rodent extermination ("We have a monopoly on rats in the ghetto?and we're going to have a monopoly on killing them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jesse Jackson: One Leader Among Many | 4/6/1970 | See Source »

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