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With that dry and cautious comment, Chief Justice Earl Warren gave fair warning that the decision he was about to hand down for an angrily divided Su preme Court was sure to echo through law-enforcement agencies across the land. For the court was reversing the' convictions of four confessed crimi nals: Kidnaper-Rapist Ernesto Miranda, Mugger Roy Stewart, Stickup Man Mi chael Vignera and Bank Robber Carl Westover. It was a decision that seemed to invite controversy, but Warren in sisted that the court was not offering any innovations. It was merely reaffirming any criminal defendant...
...Upheld a lower federal court order requiring New York to hold a special legislative election on Nov. 2. The elec tion will be held under "Plan A," the first of four reapportionment plans passed last December by a lame-duck Republican legislature. The State Su preme court voided all four, noting specifically that Plan A violated a state constitutional provision against a lower house of more than 150 members. A three-judge federal court overturned that ruling on the grounds that some reapportionment action must be taken...
Thus the U.S. Senate became the first parliamentary body of the three original signatories* to ratify the pact. Next day, having obviously waited for the Senate to act, two dozen members of the 3 3-member Presidium of the Su preme Soviet met and speedily followed suit. Britain will put the treaty before Commons when it convenes late this month, and if no objections are raised within 21 days (none are expected), the treaty automatically is ratified...
...Gerard Debaets or Australia's iron man, Reggie McNamara. Song pluggers used the occasions to intone their wares. Pickpockets, purse snatchers, coat grabbers and assorted Broadway hoodlums worked overtime all week. Such flashy spenders as Peggy Hopkins Joyce and Movie Magnate William Fox dropped in to offer "premes" (premiums) that ran as high as $1,000 for winners of impromptu sprints. Al Capone was a regular (but his highest preme was only a $10 bill...
...plenty of pleasant experiences on the boards, though. During my first race in Berlin, for example, in 1914. I won a 'preme' and was presented with two gold cigarette cases by the Crown Prince who congratulated me in perfect English, and refused to let me bow to him. "That's all right. Mac' he said, 'save your energy for the race...