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Paradoxically, Scott's ambiguous stand on the Goldwater nomination may in the end pull out victory for him, but at the same time, it has brought him a myriad of problems and campaign difficulties. When Goldwater toured conservative Philadelphia suburbs last week, and Scott avoided him once more, staunch Republicans appeared with signs asking, "Where is Hugh Scott?" On one campaign jaunt, Scott's collar was seized by an elderly party woman who insisted, "Just say his name! You have to say his name!" But Scott says the name as seldom as possible, and he has yet to appear with...
...decision ruling that any man who cannot pay a lawyer is entitled to court-appointed counsel when on trial, even in state courts, for anything more than a petty offense. This decision brought Gideon a new trial (and his acquittal) and opened the way for new trials for a myriad of other Gideons. And future Gideons can be grateful. Only recently, however, is Lewis' book beginning to get the widespread general readership the lawyers and the critics agree it deserves...
...night, its theater and nightclub districts glow in gaudy neon. Fun-loving citizens fill dozens of giant cabarets, one of which offers 800 hostesses to entertain customers, or ogle the sights from a 338-ft. observation tower, the symbol of the city's growth. Osaka's myriad restaurants are noted for their epicurean meals-and it is just as well. The new trains from Tokyo carry buffet stalls but no dining car. Reason: the railway claims that its trains go too fast to leave time for full-course dinners...
...State of Urgency." Ever since Khanh himself seized power in a coup last January, rumors of another coup have swirled about him. He has tried in vain to get the country's minuscule, myriad "political parties" (more than 60 at last count) to come up with a program, and to pacify discontented generals and colonels. His nominal chief of state. General Duong Van ("Big") Minh, has been unhappy and uncooperative. Latest dissident is one of Khanh's three Vice Premiers, Nguyen Ton Hoan. leader of the nationalist Dai Viet party, who recently complained of "too much interference from...
...Beatles), the foppish Mods and sullen Rockers like nothing better than to crack one another's skulls. Two mass bashes over the Easter and Whitsuntide weekends had only whetted the teen sects' appetites for more, as excited word spread from London's Mecca Ballrooms and myriad Soho record clubs that Hastings would be the smart place to be on the long three-day Bank Holiday weekend at the beginning of August...