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...controversy began in January when a teen-ager accused of car theft was murdered in a crowded Miami jail cell. The killing evoked angry responses from press and public, and the legislature hastily ordered the state supreme court to issue rules requiring prompt trials. The court directed that those accused of felonies must be tried within 180 days or set free; those charged with lesser offenses have to be tried within 90 days. If any defendant formally requests a prompt trial, the time limit is 60 days. The court's directive came less than a month after the youth...
Domestic producers cannot be so prompt because they have laid off fully one-third of their 110,000 skilled workers in the past two years. Replacing them may be difficult; a major employer recently phoned six former tool assemblers before he reached one who was willing to leave his newfound, more secure job to return to the volatile world of machine tools. Thus in this sensitive sector of the economy, there may be a long wait for the prosperity that President Nixon has promised...
...rate of $46 billion in this year's second quarter, were actually lower than in 1965. Many economists agree with Walter Heller that "an excess profits tax is a silly tax." It did not work well at all during the Korean War. Such a tax now might only prompt executives to hide their companies' real earnings by accounting sleight-of-hand, or to squander in expense-account living the money that they otherwise report in profits. Moreover, businessmen use earnings for a large part of their investment in plant expansion and modernization-and any reduction in that would...
Endless Decade. As passed last week, however, the bill only expresses "the sense of the Congress" that there must be a "prompt and orderly withdrawal" of U.S. forces "at the earliest practicable date." Even so, the long controversy over what is normally a routine authorization became an index of deepening congressional disaffection with the war. The prospect of an impending one-candidate election in South Viet Nam became a bitter symbol in the debate. Said New Mexico's Senator Joseph Montoya: "After an endless decade of commitment, this is what we have to show for 55,000 dead American...
...that question. But staffers at the FTC's Division of Consumer Credit and Special Programs say that most companies have a lot to gain by keeping their customers uninformed. If a cardholder knows that his liability is limited to $50, for example, he may not be so prompt in letting the company know when he finds that his card is missing...