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...business, I sometimes have to pay off." But the Army's Criminal Investigation Division, which had the PX payoff problem dumped in its lap last year, has not asked him for new evidence. Though the PX thinks bribe-taking is about cleaned up, C.I.D. finds there is null evidence of payoffs around. The big barrier to taking the cases to court is the Swiss banking system. Swiss law forbids disclosure of bank records; thus C.I.D. cannot get its hands on the vital pieces of evidence it needs to get convictions...
...TENNESSEE BETRAYED, SEGREGATION OR WAR, and GOD, THE ORIGINAL SEGREGATIONIST. Representatives of the Tennessee Society to Maintain Segregation Inc., the Associated Citizens' Councils of Tennessee, and Pro-Southerners Inc., the demonstrators came to persuade Governor Frank Clement (TIME, Jan. 30) that Tennessee should declare the Supreme Court decision "null and void." They got an early hint of Clement's answer: when one of the demonstrators tried to eject a Negro photographer, a state trooper intervened: "If you hit that man, I'll lock you up. This building belongs to all the people...
After two years and two score amateur fights, Patterson found himself at Helsinki, Finland, wearing the blue blazer of the U.S. Olympic team. Floyd won the null championship with impressive ease. "He was fully as sensational when he mounted a dais to receive the victory award-he put one hand on his stomach, the other against his back, and gave the crowd a deep, dancing-school...
...power to maintain public schools and other public facilities on a basis of separation as to race, the legislature of Alabama declares the decision and orders of the Supreme Court of the U.S. relating to separation of the races in the public schools are, as a matter of right, null, void and of no effect; and the legislature of Alabama declares to all men that, as a matter of right, this State is not bound to abide thereby...
...turned out, last week's Virginia Resolution was a very watered-down version of the original. Earlier drafts, which bluntly declared the court decision null and void (after the style of Calhoun's nullificationist South Carolina in 1832), were abandoned when it became apparent that they would probably not pass the general assembly. Many assemblymen feel that outright nullification would be absurd and futile; other Virginians fear that it might interfere with the Gray Plan (TIME...