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...thus escaped for another four years the constitutional crisis that for generations has been inherent in the Electoral College system. Had none of the candidates gained the requisite 270-vote Electoral College majority, the nation would have drifted in dangerous uncertainty for weeks or even months. The possible scenario has become amply familiar. Wallace might have tried to barter his electors for concessions from one of the major candidates between Nov. 5 and Dec. 16, when the electors will cast their ballots. If he failed, the selection of the next President might have been thrown to the House of Representatives...
Directed by the judge to fix the amount of damages, the jury awarded $1,021,500 to the estate of a 67-year-old Negro who was murdered in 1966. None of the defendants have been convicted of the murder, but one of them, James L. Jones, 58, confessed before his 1967 trial. He said that he had been present when Ernest Avants, 37, and Claude Fuller, 48, killed Ben Chester White, a caretaker who worked on a farm near Natchez. For no particular reason, said Jones, the three men took
Indeed it may. Though none of the ex-Klansmen has nearly enough money to pay off, nor are they ever likely to, all may be burdened with heavy debt for the rest of their lives. Under Mississippi law, they can be forced to sell real and personal property, and 25% of their salaries can be garnisheed until the award is liquidated...
...sent 17 manned missions into space, but none has been as ambitious or adventurous as the next one on NASA's schedule. If all goes well, on the morning of Dec. 21 a 3,100-ton Saturn 5 will rise slowly from its pad at Cape Kennedy. Three days later, Astronauts Frank Borman, James A. Lovell Jr. and William A. Anders will be spending Christmas Eve in the spaceship Apollo 8, farther from home than any men have ever been: they will be circling the moon...
...watch the film just for itself, without any greater meaning, and that is easy to do. The characters in the movie are all the kind of people you would never think twice about to understand. None will even remotely remind you of Julie Christie; and there are at least a half a dozen characters who absorb the role that John Wayne plays on the American screen...