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Better communication devices could at least have pinpointed the miners' location, letting mine officials drill down to get them food, water and air. Could the miners possibly be alive? "It's feasible," says Carol Raulston, of the National Mine Association. There could be pockets of air for them to breathe. Beyond that, she says, "there's water in the mine, and people have been known to survive this long without extra food." Indeed, every time a major earthquake levels a city, rescuers always seem to pull one last victim out of the rubble long after any reasonable hope was gone...
Having besought Judge Raulston to quash the indictment brought against Scopes lest it ignite a conflagration of bigotry in the land, and because the act under which it was brought was unconstitutional (TIME, July 20), Lawyer Darrow, shambling, leonin counsel for the defense, next besought His Honor to dispense with, as being prejudicial, the long prayers (by visiting and local Fundamentalist clerics) with which the sessions were being opened. Hot words from the prosecution. Hotter words. In the course of this debate, Attorney General A. T. Stewart snapped at defense-counsel Arthur Garneld Hays: "Willyoupleasekeepyourmouthshut...
That afternoon, however, Mr. Darrow apologized. He said that he had received only courtesy and meant to return the same, that he had spoken in anger. Judge Raulston then forgave him with a Biblical quotation...
...thunderbolt?citation for contempt?fell then. Court was adjourned over the weekend. The lawyers retired to their respective camps on opposite sides of the valley and bombarded one another with resounding statements to the press. On the Monday when Darrow entered court, he was informed by Judge Raulston: "He who hurls contempt at my court insults the great Volunteer State, . . ." and requested to make bond for $5,000 pending a hearing for "contempt and insult...
...death of William Jennings Bryan furnished Tennessee's anti-Evolution case with a climax. In the trial itself (TIME, July 6 et seq.), there was no climax. Judge Raulston, having denied the defense an injunction against Teacher Scopes' indictment on the ground that the state anti-Evolution law was quite unconstitutional, and having further refused to admit scientific evidence (save as affidavits* in the record to instruct higher courts) by which the defense would have sought to disprove Scopes' misdemeanor through "reconciling" the Biblical with the scientific account of creation, there remained to the trial nothing but the bald testimony...