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General Motors has won a significant decision in the case of the controversial Corvairs. Some 85 suits have been brought against G.M. by victims-and dependents of victims-injured in accidents involving Corvairs built in the 1960-63 model years. Almost all claim that the car's rear axle (since redesigned) gave the Corvair an inherent instability and a tendency to oversteer, resulting sometimes in fatal accidents. G.M. won the first suit last month by convincing a California jury that a fatal accident involving a 1960 Corvair was caused by driver inexperience; but the jury's decision...
...quite accurate to say that Ross Sobel has been playing pro golf for 49 years without ever winning a tournament. In 1922, he beat Willie MacFarlane for a new suit of clothes in the John David Invitational-a pitch-and-putt tournament that was played in midtown Manhattan on the cutting floor of a men's clothing store. "It wasn't as easy as it sounds," says Sobel. "The greens were trapped with buckets of sand and water, and I had to shoot a 40-ft. hole...
...about the coalition. The American Civil Liberties Union, the American Jewish Congress, and Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State-all remain on the lookout for what they feel are violations of the separation wall. In Jackson County, Mo., P.O.A.U. is backing a taxpayers' suit to stop participation of three churches in Project Head Start. The American Jewish Congress warns that it will keep a close watch on how the 1965 Education Act is administered. Yet some members of these organizations feel that the current climate of opinion may make it harder for them...
...content with demonstrations, the Freedom Committee got a court injunction restraining Shuttlesworth from spending any more church money, and filed suit for an accounting of Revelation's funds since he became pastor. Shuttlesworth hit back with a court order of his own, restraining the dissident leaders from disrupting any more Sunday services. He charges that the fuss is all part of a right-wing plot, fostered by the dissidents' white lawyer, to discredit the civil rights movement...
Agnes makes a scarecrow out of her father's old black suit, and when an escaped criminal (Dean Stockwell) puts on the scarecrow's clothes and collapses from a wound, the lonely threesome discover three compelling reasons to shelter him from the police. To the irascible old judge, he is a potential audience; to Karen, he is a potential bedmate; to Agnes, he is her mystical scarecrow come to life. In the unfolding of the story, each eventually gets something of his wish...