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Motion-picture film shot by Orville Nix, one of the three known amateur photographers who recorded the assassination, had made it appear to some eyes that a rifleman lay on a raised object atop the knoll. United Press International bought the film from Nix and persuaded Massachusetts' Itek Corporation, which specializes in sophisticated photographic equipment and photographic-analysis processes, to find out what Nix's camera really captured. Employing advanced methods that were not available to the Warren Commission, Itek concluded in a 55-page report that 1) no one could be discerned on the suspect area...
Even Babies. The last time Dick Nix on ventured into Latin America, as Vice President in the spring of 1958, mobs of Communist-led students rained stones and spittle on him in Lima and Caracas, screaming "Death to Nixon!" Last week, as a private citizen returning to the relatively more stable continent, he was politely, even warmly greeted. "I still don't believe it," said one Peruvian, as he watched Nixon being hoisted onto the shoulders of enthusiastic villagers near Lima. After dandling a few babies in the village and laying a brick for a new school, Nixon returned...
Show-biz-wise, indeedy. Yorty's first show topped Perry Mason, It's About Time and Truth or Consequences. The critics were not altogether kind. Along with a nix from Variety, Sam's show prompted a double-edged encomium from Los Angeles Times TV Critic Hal Humphrey. "Would it be fair to say," asked Humphrey, "that Yorty makes as good a TV host as he does a mayor? Probably...
Guaranteed Preparation. The big change is all due to a few surprisingly simple reforms devised two years ago by the then presiding judge, Kenneth N. Chantry, the current presiding judge, Lloyd S. Nix, and the court's executive officer, Edward C. Gallas. The prime principle behind the speedup is that the judges need no longer waste everybody's time granting lawyers postponement after postponement as they claim a need to "discover" more facts about an opponent's case, get themselves absurdly scheduled to appear in several different courts at once, or put forward any old excuse...
...court's judges fought the reforms out of pure distaste for change-and some plaintiffs' lawyers still feel that the speedup keeps them from fully preparing cases. Even so, most lawyers seem to agree that justice no longer delayed is justice no longer denied. Presiding Judge Nix happily reports that "each and every judge" now supports the system, while admiring judicial visitors flow in from other states and foreign countries...