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...subcommittee of the House District Committee has approved an "omnibus crime bill" (and a crime it is) that would suspend Constitutional safeguards against arrests for investigation and unreasonable delays between the arrest and arraignment before a magistrate...
...read through these pages about some of the consequences of robots and computers, you are asked to lay aside a passion so deeply ingrained it is almost instinctual. You are asked to suspend the fear of unemployment as the worst of economic fates...
This was outrageous enough for Elijah to suspend Malcolm from the Black Muslim movement. Malcolm quit for keeps, soon had formed his own white-hating Organization of Afro-American Unity, and urged Negroes to form rifle clubs...
...regardless of circumstances, and that is neighborly concern, social responsibility, agape-which is a divine imperative." In the situational approach of the new morality, he said, "one enters into every decision-making moment armed with all the wisdom of the culture, but prepared in one's freedom to suspend and violate any rule except that one must as responsibly as possible seek the good of one's neighbor." Which is quite a long thought for an 18-year-old during a passionate moment in the back seat...
Norris, Luber, and Glass were charged with illegal sale and possession of narcotics, with conspiracy to violate the narcotic drug law, and with being present where a narcotic drug was being kept illegally. "I am going to impose rather severe sentences on these men and suspend them to give them a chance to reform," Pecce said...