Word: superior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concern. "People no longer identify with the law," says Sociologist O. Z. White of San Antonio's Trinity University. "The old-timer felt that every trial was his-he was the people. Now it is 'their' trial, not 'ours.' " Atlanta's Superior Court Judge Luther Alverson even suggests that declining trial attendance may contribute to rising crime. "I do not think it is good for people to be removed from the realities of what goes on from day to day in our cities. It is important for people to learn who commits crime...
...strange and tortuous route that the bullet fragment had followed. Slowed by smashing through his skull, it had landed in the left transverse sinus (a large vein). Then it had ''flowed" in the blood stream along the transverse sinus, down the main jugular vein and superior vena cava, into the right auricle (upper chamber) of the heart and through the tricuspid valve into the right ventricle. Thanks to the heart's muscular contractions, the fragment had worked halfway through the heart wall. If it had gone all the way, Kelley, who was ready to go home last...
...Hill, the New York Court of Appeals recently cleared the all-time erotic bestseller on the ground of "literary value." Applying the same tests to the same book, courts in Rhode Island and Massachusetts banned it. Last week the banners were joined by New Jersey's Bergen County Superior Court Judge Morris Pashman, who found Fanny "sufficiently obscene to forfeit the protection of the First Amendment." Fanny Hill's U.S. publisher...
Last week the Goldmarks got a shock: Superior Court Judge Theodore Turner granted the defendants a new trial because "the case was submitted to the jury on a basis which the U.S. Supreme Court has declared is fundamentally wrong." Turner was referring to New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, a landmark decision holding that public officials can sue their critics only for a false statement "made with actual malice-that is, with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard for whether it was false...
...prospects of the new nations. "The international atmosphere," writes Sinai, "is absolutely clogged with slogans, speeches and books extolling the 'Great Revolution' that has supposedly been brought about in all these populous territories. What we are witnessing in reality is a colorful masquerade, a sort of superior political orgy, superficially exciting but essentially undermining and leading only to a process of dissolution...