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...uncomfortable position. As has happened in the past with striking railroaders, the contract defeat left the Government no choice except to act. But in an election year, when politicians of all stripes are exceedingly sensitive about the labor vote, nobody in Washington wanted to be the one to say "obey...
...Supreme Court decision, Chief Justice Earl Warren's opinion raised many unanswered questions. Every suspect must now be warned as soon as he is "deprived of his freedom of action in any significant way." Does this include even a few minutes of street-corner interrogation? How can police obey Miranda's command to furnish lawyers for indigent suspects? Most communities, especially in the South, have neither money nor means to do so. Says Birmingham Chief Jamie Moore: "We don't even have a public-defender system." Yet if no lawyer is available for a suspect who wants...
...Might was right; power was virtue; the greatest sin was weakness." To obey had been Eichmann's highest object. Hausner's epitaph is that Eichmann died "as he lived-a pagan, a polished, finished and unalloyed product of the Nazi system...
...tenants somehow scrape up the cash. They also take pride in keeping their new oasis tidy: the eight cans a day of "airmail"-garbage hurled out the window-have now shrunk to only one. To earn rapport with tenants accustomed to being disregarded, U.S. Gypsum assigned Salesman Warren Obey as fulltime project manager. "When Warren came here," says longtime tenant Zion R. Paige, "he had three strikes against him. He was white, he was with a big company, and he was telling a story. Everybody around here has heard a story. This neighborhood has been politically exploited. But Warren delivered...
...boiler fireman for the city's Sanitation Department to support his wife and two teen-age sons, he customarily cuts his sleep to five or six hours to spend more of his day struggling to get people on his block to "participate." Says Gypsum's Obey: "If Paige can keep these people together, we'll be all right...