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Painful Precedents. Black sharply dissented, but the vaguely worded rule remained on the books to cause case-by-case confusion for the next two decades. In 1947, the Court took a similar tack in Adamson v. California, saying that the Fifth Amendment did not forbid states to pressure a defendant to testify against himself. Calling this "an incongruous excrescence on our Constitution," Black offered an elaborately researched dissent arguing that the 14th Amendment's framers themselves intended the Bill of Rights as a shield against the states. He won over three other Justices (Douglas, Murphy, Rutledge). A fifth vote...
...whose campaign buttons read "Part of the Way with LBJ," took a different tack: "I am concerned," he said, "not with building a great society, but with building a society that is concerned with human needs...
...days later they were at it again, and this time Eagle made it exciting. As usual, Cox won the start for Eagle, defended masterfully through a series of furious tacking duels, and led Bavier's Constellation around all five marks of the 24.3-mile Olympic course. Turning the final buoy for the 4½-mile upwind beat to the finish, Cox had a 22-sec. lead. Then Bavier set a new jib on Constellation and launched an exhausting short-tacking drive; 17 times in 15 minutes he put about, gaining a precious second or two on each tack...
Later, Dr. Atl became dismayed at the leftist tack that the artists he had encouraged were taking. As for himself, he preferred fascism, publishing almost daily newspaper articles during World War II in praise of it. Politics finally palled, and the old man returned to his volcanoes. Last week Dr. Atl's fire finally went out at the age of 89. President Lopez Mateos ordered his burial in Mexico's pantheon of famous...
...attend the courses are mostly in their mid-40s, earn an average income of $27,000. It costs a company $2,000, plus expenses and salary, to enroll an executive, and the gold "sign of Hermes" tie tack presented to graduates has come to rank with the private ice-water carafe as a status symbol back at the home office. Though some participants never really break away from their desks for the six-week period and try to run things back at headquarters with flurries of long-distance telephone calls, most men-flattered at being chosen-drop everything to take...