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Tufts, which won the McMillan Cup last fall over nine Eastern crews including Harvard and Navy, ranks as a co-favorite for the race with the University of California at Berkeley, whose boat will be skippered by Scot Allen, the assistant helmsman on Columbia, an America's Cup hopeful...
Brandy at Sundown. A generation ago, it had seemed possible that the original pioneer settler, a Scot named Ferris, might have made an outpost of civilization in this ill-favored wilderness. He had cleared the bush, trained the natives in animal husbandry and domestic service, imported the piano, the chandelier, the stone lions at the stoep, wine glasses and even books. In the hands of Ferris' son, a potbellied boor named Archie, things fall apart-both literally and figuratively. The piano sinks through the termite-ridden floor, the chandelier is unlit, the glasses are broken, the cattle...
...convicted of murdering the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, in 1959. Testifying before the U.S. Senate Constitutional Rights Subcommittee, Capote reasoned that had the Supreme Court's recent rulings banning forced confessions been in effect at the time of the Clutter killings, the offenders would have gone scot-free...
...care is defined as what "the great mass of mankind" would ordinarily exercise in the same or similar circumstances. And in most states, juries are normally instructed that a plaintiff who fails to take such precautions may not collect; the plaintiff's negligence means the defendant gets off scot-free, which seems to be just what happened in Milwaukee. Once the jury received its instructions, it absolved Budner and withheld all damages for Mrs. Busick...
...typical all-white jury breeds injustice in three ways: 1) Negroes committing crimes against Negroes are likely to be let off too easily; 2) Negroes committing crimes against whites receive unduly harsh penalties; 3) whites committing crimes against Negroes either get off scot free or receive token sentences. Into the last category falls the breakneck acquittal last September in Hayneville, Ala., of Thomas Coleman, accused of killing an Episcopal seminarian and wounding a Catholic priest, both civil rights workers. It was at least slightly embarrassing to the state that Coleman, one of the local white courthouse-hangers...