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...This is a product not only of exclusion of Negroes in the South and elsewhere. It is also due to the fact that a majority of federal courts still use a "key man" system whereby leading citizens are asked to provide the names of those others in the communi ty who are worthy of serving on juries. This tends to limit jury panels to the well educated and socially acceptable. Grand juries are similarly chosen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Courts: Everyman on Juries | 3/29/1968 | See Source »

...insanity plea, said the court, "is neither an express nor an implied ad mission of present illness, and acquittal rests only on a reasonable doubt of sani ty at the time of the offense. It is true that persons acquitted by reason of in sanity have committed criminal acts and that this fact may tend to show that they meet the requirements for commitment, namely illness and dangerousness. But it does not justify total abandonment of the procedures used in civil commitment proceedings to determine whether these same requirements have been satisfied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Decisions: Insane Then, Doesn't Mean Insane Now | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

Solos were generously distributed and inevitably some voices proved less fortunate standing alone than others. One baritone in particular had egregious difficulties with intonation, singing either sharp or totally out of tune. Nonetheless he more than redeemed himself in Akh, Ty Step Shirokaja, that emotionally charged and typically Russian hymn to the Volga River. By and large the soloists were excellent and served less to highlight particular individuals than to underscore the power and expertise of the group as a whole...

Author: By Robert G. Kopelson, | Title: Yale Russian Chorus | 2/19/1968 | See Source »

...resign?" Last week Callaghan resigned as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Harold Wilson moved him over to the Home Office and replaced him at the Treasury with Home Secretary Roy Jenkins, 48, a tough but suave economist who may be one of the few Laborites to gain from the par ty's recent embarrassments - provided that he can help extricate Britain from its present economic morass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Man for All Sacrifices | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

Although the spongelike material fills the tank, it soaks up the fuel and capaci ty is not significantly reduced. The or ange polyurethane, by containing the fuel and its vapor, reduces the possibility of explosion or fire when the tank is hit by a bullet or ruptures during a crash. At the Air Force demonstration, a bullet fired into a fuel-and-foam-filled tank produced only a slight glow as fuel vapor escaping from the pressurized tank ignited outside. Foam has been successfully used for nine months in the tanks of HH-3E helicopters and other aircraft operating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: Safer Skies | 9/22/1967 | See Source »

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