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Indicted by a Dallas County Grand Jury for murder with malice, Ruby could get a death sentence. But his lawyer said he would plead temporary insanity-and if the jury agreed with that plea, Ruby could get off scot-free...
...drastically reduce the number who demand a jury trial. Before a case comes into court, the accused is shown a screening of his on-camera performance. Nine times out of ten, the sight of himself wobbling through the tests is enough to convince the driver that he ought to plead guilty...
This proposal might appear too rigid, except that it holds less prospect for disaster than the present policy. Until the last few weeks, support for the Diem government remained dangerously open-ended. United States personnel in South Vietnam could always plead for just a little more time to corral the Vietcong. The more often this plea was granted, American involvement increased, and the more difficult it became for Washington not to grant the plea the next time. The danger lay in the possibility of having finally to withdraw in great ignominy, to hang on embarrassingly and expensively, or to expand...
...Negro "Freedom Day" protest last week was vastly bigger than most Chicagoans had predicted, and set the white-Negro school issue up in sharper terms than in any other big U.S. city. Yet Willis, having had the board plead for his return and having shown massive political support from whites, seems to be in a stronger position than ever...
...that would catch headlines, and to send progress reports on his agency to 600 business leaders who had never inquired about his progress in the first place. Now Ogilvy is 52, his reputation made, his agency secure with 19 clients and $55 million in annual billings. "I can only plead," he writes, "that if I had behaved in a more professional way, it would have taken me 20 years to arrive. I had neither the time nor the money to wait...