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...Ginzburg entertained serious doubts about the truth of what he was publishing. Indeed, many uninvolved lawyers who have dropped in to watch (and there have been an unusual number) do not see how Goldwater can possibly win. Even if he should, they point out, the appeals court might well overturn any verdict in his favor...
...conflict. Invoking Tennessee court decisions banning strikes by public service workers, the mayor brought in some 150 strikebreakers. The Negro community countered with a boycott of downtown stores with the slogan: "No new clothes for Easter." Seven hundred Negroes picnicked in city hall. A few youngsters tried to overturn a police cruiser. Nervous cops sprayed the kids' faces with Mace. Injunctions were brought against union leaders. When a contingent of Negro ministers and militants returned to city hall, a raucous exchange of words resulted in the arrest of 117 protesters. They went willingly and gently, two by two, singing...
...obvious advantages. The former attorney general is an experienced national campaigner who managed his late brother's Presidential victory in 1960. Kennedy has a greater knowledge of the Byzantine ways of state and urban Democratic power groups whose partial backing any anti-war candidate will eventually need to overturn the President at the Chicago convention. Kennedy can command the funds for the massive media campaign that will be required to maintain the momentum McCarthy started Tuesday. On both counts, McCarthy is lacking, and the deficiencies could all too easily make his challenge futile...
...declining to overturn the convictions of two men who had been arrested attempting to pick up a trunk full of marijuana last summer, Superior Court Chief Justice G. Joseph Tauro declared, "In my opinion a proper inference may be draw from the evidence that there is a relationship between the use of marijuana and the incidence of crime and antisocial behavior...
...April Good tried to overturn the School Superintendent John M. Tobin's recommendation for a new head of Cambridge's home economics department. When it was discovered that Good's candidate for the job was his cousin, Duehay opened fire; the Superintendent's candidate got the job, and Good's prestige plummeted...