Word: roger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ENGLAND SWINGS (Smash). Roger Miller (Dang Me, Do-Wacka-Do, You Can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd) can pull a hit out of a hat. He recommends taking the family to England, because England swings, what with Westminster Abbey, Big Ben and "bobbies on bicycles...
Seventeen news photographers drown or die of concussions as Lynda Bird Johnson spends a holiday surfing in California. Spacecraft Gemini 8 and Gemini 9 establish an historic orbital link-up. Astronaut Roger Overendhout, clad in red, white, and blue underwear, is able to crawl from one capsule to another. Playing a tube he had carefully smuggled aboard in his space suit, he performs a riotous impromptu strip-tease for the laughing crew of Gemini 8. Astronaut Kirwood Derby Jr., using a small NBC-TV camera he was carefully paid $10,000 to smuggle aboard in his spacesuit, records the whole...
WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOR, by Walker Lewis. A beguiling if biased biography of U.S. Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, an uncompromising constitutionalist whose decision in the Dred Scott case and steadfast opposition to the Lincoln Administration's wartime measures made him one of the most unpopular men of his time...
Speaking for the California court in the Martinez-Aranda case, Chief Justice Roger Traynor took his cue from Jackson and reversed Aranda's conviction on the ground that a jury cannot "segregate evidence into separate intellectual boxes." In short, said Traynor, if A confesses that he committed criminal acts with B, the jury cannot "effectively ignore the inevitable conclusion that B has committed those same criminal acts with A." From now on, ruled Traynor, California courts must handle codefendant confessions according to new procedures...
WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOR, by Walker Lewis. A beguiling, if somewhat biased biography of U.S. Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, an uncompromising old constitutionalist, whose decision in the Dred Scott case and steadfast opposition to wartime measures of the Lincoln Administration made him one of the most unpopular men of his time...