Word: suspect
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...ances. A reformed alcoholic gone on to the Governor's mansion and the Senate, Hughes never got off the ground as a presidential candidate. His Gallup poll rating was 2%, and even this meager rating was suspect since he is often confused with Tycoon Howard Hughes...
...admitted to a hospital later that afternoon, he had difficulty moving his arms and legs. Shortly before midnight he died. Only after his wife was admitted to the hospital with similar symptoms did doctors, who had not seen a case of the disease in nearly 40 years, suspect that the couple had contracted botulism, a deadly form of food poisoning. Mrs. Cochran, though in critical condition at week's end, may still be saved by the antitoxin that was rushed to her from an out-of-town laboratory...
That led Lange to suspect that she might be suffering from "dynamite heart." The condition, first described in 1941, results when overexposure to nitroglycerin causes blood vessels to dilate and to remain open as long as exposure is continued. But when the source of nitroglycerin is removed, the vessels contract, reducing the supply of blood to the heart...
...Falcon headquarters, where it is feared more may have been murdered. Through it all, the police made no move to intervene. Who are the Falcons? Spokesmen for President Luis Echeverría Alvarez put the blame on a right-wing student group known as "Muro." But many Mexicans suspect that the city government is involved. Mayor Alfonso Martínez Domínguez, a former head of the ruling Partido Revolucionario Institutional, denounced the students and denied that the city has the Falcons on the payroll. At week's end, the students issued a statement calling for the mayor...
...some Warren Court rulings as mere dicta (discussions not crucial to a decision), the new court has snipped away at due-process precedents. So far, the chief casualty has been the Warren Court's famous decision in Miranda v. Arizona (1966), which held that police cannot question a suspect in custody until they inform him of his constitutional rights to silence and counsel. At issue this term in Harris v. New York was whether statements made by an unwarned suspect could be used to impeach his testimony at trial. By a vote of 5 to 4, the new court...