Word: personality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Researcher Tricia Colt, who made a special project of the puzzles and paradoxes of air fares, is about the only person connected with the story who did all of her work on the ground. "I only got as far as the airport," she said, an experience no doubt shared by quite a few people last week...
...companies in between. At the peak of the heat in Memphis, beer sales foamed 40% above normal. Throughout the swelter belt, appliance stores were soon as bare of air conditioners and fans as if they had never been invented. "There comes a point," exulted a Manhattan dealer, "when a person can't stand it any longer-even if he knows it's only going to be for just one more night...
...heroin served as a basis for arrest, which, in turn, was claimed to justify the search which disclosed it." Judge Van Voorhis insisted that a frisk should be tightly limited to its only legitimate purpose: "To discover and seize dangerous weapons." If it becomes "a general search of the person" in patent violation of the Fourth Amendment, warned Van Voorhis, "we shall have progressed a considerable distance toward the police state...
Rewritten Rules. Carrying on the argument, the American Civil Liberties Union plans to help appeal the Peters decision to the U.S. Supreme Court, which has yet to rule on stop-and-frisk. If the court takes the case, the key issue may well be whether a person stopped for questioning and frisking is actually under arrest-for it is only lawful arrest, with or without a warrant, that carries with it the right to make a search "incident" to that arrest. Without grounds for arrest, police cannot simply search a person and then use whatever evidence they happen to find...
...search, thus enabling police to act on "reasonable suspicion" rather than the stricter standard of probable cause. All this seems to assume that an arrest begins only with some sort of formal announcement. By contrast, some courts view arrest as the first "actual restraint" that stops a person from doing whatever he pleases-a definition that may well bar searches made on mere "suspicion...