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...planes, and customarily fill out the cabins with supernumeraries. But a basketball troupe consists of ten or twelve players, a coach or two, a writer or three, a radio broadcaster and a combination trainer-traveling secretary. They wait with everyone else for undependable commercial departures. Every team's traditional safeguard against a severe fine for missing a game is always to take the first flight out in the morning. So the players are up at 7 each day, bleary vaudevillians pursuing one-night stands...
...Douglas thought that the malice standard could let in undesirable suits. Wrote Black, in a concurring opinion to the majority: "The requirement that malice be proved provides at best an evanescent protection for the right critically to discuss public affairs and certainly does not measure up to the sturdy safeguard embodied in the First Amendment...
...case of a second couple was going to trial last October, Prosecutor Morris, who had been alternately praised for her persistence and berated as overzealous, suddenly announced that the county was dropping all charges against the remaining 19 defendants. The reason: to spare the children further trauma and safeguard the investigation of the alleged homicides committed by members of the sex ring...
First Mr. Gooen suggests that the majority of state laws banning abortion before Roe were intended not to safeguard the life of the fetus, but rather to protect the mother from dangerous proceedings. The only evidence he offers in support of this is the fact that most of these statutes criminalized only the abortionist and not the would-be mother. This proves only that those outraged by abortion, then as now, understood that abortion was a crime in which often the woman would be victimized almost as much as the unborn child. Also, since 36 of the states had abortion...
...headlines this week offers a disquieting example of offers a disquieting example of how insidious. American insensitivity abroad can be. The deadly gas leak from the American-owned Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India immediately raised questions as to whether the firm had taker, adequate precautions to safeguard Indian lives...