Word: parcelling
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Counsel Patrick Hallinan, at club headquarters in San Francisco, denied that the clubs were either Communist-led or organized, calling the Justice Department's citation "part and parcel of the policies of the Johnson Administration to suppress and silence critics of its dirty little war in Viet Nam." That at least was a new refrain for the old unchanging tune...
...doorbell rang. The policewoman peered through a peephole, asked who was there. "Parcel-delivery service," came the reply. As the policewoman left the room, three cops, with two shotguns and a pistol, took her place. One jerked open the door, and the two intruders burst in. The cops opened fire. Skalla had arranged with the police to drop before they opened fire, but he missed his cue in the excitement. He and Bailey were gunned down; Bailey died instantly, but Skalla lingered for three hours. "In my opinion, they were prepared to shoot us," said Lieut. B. L. Cork...
...Harvard candidates have always been strong, and they were this year. It so happened that our committee in Massachusetts set other applicants above a second Harvard candidate. I expect this is what happened around the country. I hope so, because any effort to parcel the scholarships out among different colleges and universities would be utterly wrong. Erwin D. Canham, Secretary Mass. Selection Committee The Rhodes Scholarship
...make a dollar," Richard Cone mailed eight packages of marijuana home from Panama. When he returned to Manhattan and picked up his parcel, U.S. customs agents arrested him. Minutes later, while walking to a Government car, Cone confessed; he freely gave evidence that helped earn him a five-year sentence for smuggling narcotics. Later he appealed, basing his argument on the Supreme Court's controversial 1964 decision Escobedo v. Illinois, which ruled that when investigation shifts to accusation, police must tell all suspects of their rights to silence and to counsel-and that any confession made without such warning...
...Historian Friedrich Heer fumes at "this small, narrow-minded, petit bourgeois person." A Catholic layman from Colorado complains: "He makes grand gestures and then does nothing to obtain the goal." Argues Edward Keating, editor of the rambunctiously liberal California monthly Ramparts: "He is a Curialist, and thus part and parcel of archconservatism. He gives with one hand and takes away with the other?and what he takes away is more important than what he gives...