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...concentrate the money in districts where poverty is something more than a curiosity recorded in 1960 census figures. The USOE has asked state education departments to use up-to-date welfare statistics to allot the money so that it will go to the most needy districts. The states, however, plead that local programs, once established, should not be abruptly, terminated, so the USOE has relented and allowed the states to make the change in a fashion reminiscent of the Supreme Court's "with all deliberate speed...
...Sense. Although he left the way open for the students to seek further evidence to support their case and to plead again for an injunction, Frankel offered them little hope of success. One by one, he demolished their arguments. The Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination would not be violated by disciplinary hearings, he said. There was no requirement to say anything at the hearings. Nor should the hearings be delayed until after any criminal proceedings. "A motor-vehicles commissioner, authorized to suspend a driver's license for speeding, need not wait for the months or years...
...when Playboy magazine heard about his predicament, Publisher Hugh Hefner's Playboy Foundation helped underwrite a habeas corpus petition. On the narrow legal ground that he was allowed to plead guilty without having been informed that he could have attacked the sodomy law constitutionally, the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has just thrown out Cotner's conviction by a 2-to-l vote. He is now free, after having served three years of his sentence, and is living with his grandmother in Illinois...
...whose members have handled 200 homicide cases for the D.A.'s office, will make sure that neither Sirhan's rights nor potential evidence is perjured. Interviewing the defendant are two court-appointed psychiatrists. A trial date will be set at a June 28 hearing, and Sirhan will plead either guilty, no contest, not guilty, or not guilty by reason of insanity...
...fantastic days of the Army-McCarthy hearings, they would sit head-to-head in the Senate caucus room, the brooding, heavy-browed Senator and the soft-cheeked, puffy-eyed young lawyer, exchanging eager whispers or concerned glances. Now and again the Senator would raise a rasping voice to plead a "point of order." Now and again the young counsel would scuttle through his papers for a sharp question or a deft answer...