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...sprint by the Crimson's Charles Redman in an attempt to displace Brown's fifth runner, Jim Ackroyd, and give Harvard a tie, failed by a scant...
...remains the search for principles that lower courts can follow as long as possible. Yet a Justice charged with being the final authority on issues as combustible as obscenity and miscegenation cannot simply look up the answers in a law book. All the written Constitution gives him is a scant 7,000 words of Delphic injunctions and 18th century specifics. To this he must add all he can muster of history, judgment and personal wisdom-the highest kind of statesmanship. Whatever the Constitution's framers envisioned, mused Justice Robert H. Jackson, "must be divined from materials almost as enigmatic...
...Allen stayed right with the sixth place Campbell, losing out by a scant...
Oswald's Nov. 22 presence in the Texas School Book Depository Building, both before and until shortly after the assassination, is absolutely authenticated. Moreover, an eyewitness placed Oswald near the killer's sixth-floor store room lair a scant 3 minutes before the fatal shots were fired. In that store room, the Commission says, Oswald's palmprint was found on a carton that had been moved to make a nest for the assassin as he peered out the window...
...hostess with the mostest in Atlantic City was none other than Perle Mesta, 73, back in style after a Kennedy Administration cold shoulder. Aside from a dinner dance for a scant 700 of "my most intimate friends" at the Claridge Hotel, Perle held nightly buffets in her rented twelve-room villa in nearby Ventnor...