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...Duke Street. There she sees Fashion Designer Pauline Fordham in a silver metallic coat, Starlet Sue Kingsford in a two-piece pink trouser suit with a lovely stretch of naked turn, Los Angeles-born Pop Artist Jann Haworth Blake, Detroit-born Negro Model Donyale Luna. Later, with Michael Rainey, 25, owner of Hung On You, she dances at Dolly's discothèque in Jermyn Street, where the deafening beat comes from the Action, the Stones, the Who, the Animals, the Mindbenders, and Cilia Black, and the right drink (at 98?) is Campari and soda-because...
...Color of Law." In the Philadelphia triple killing, the state of Mississippi refused to bring murder charges against 18 suspects, including Neshoba County Sheriff Lawrence Rainey, Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price and Philadelphia Cop Richard Willis. Because murder is not a federal offense except when it occurs on U.S.-owned property, Government attorneys prosecuted the 18 on federal charges growing out of an 1870 law. The Government accusations were based on two parts of the law. Section 241 makes it a crime punishable by ten years in prison and a $5,000 fine for "two or more persons to conspire...
...case came up in Jackson, Miss., in February 1965 before Federal District Judge William Harold Cox. He threw out the indictments under Section 241 on grounds that murder, even if it did involve civil rights, was not within federal jurisdiction. Cox allowed to stand against Rainey, Price and Willis only the charges under Section 242, reasoning that as law officers they were the only suspects actually operating under "the color of law" when the crime was committed...
...state officials in the prohibited action, are acting 'under color' of law," said Fortas. As for the more punitive Section 241: "Its language embraces all of the rights and privileges secured to citizens by all of the Constitution and all of the laws of the U.S." Thus Rainey, Price & Co. must face trial again...
Second, and more important, his words aren't those of a Sheriff Rainey--or of any other segregationist. For Chuck Morgan is a member of that close-knit band of rebels called Southern liberals who periodically speak their minds--and shatter the peace and quiet of the Southern way of life...