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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...white Southern racists. The plot, said some, was hatched in Birmingham; others maintained that it was a made-in-Memphis undertaking. The latter theory was given some support last week by a Memphian who told TIME and later the FBI that he had overheard a local businessman giving an unknown triggerman urgent orders to kill King on the balcony of his motel, and even specifying the price for the job ($5,000) and the pickup point for his fee (New Orleans...
...impressed by the mystique of the mathematical demonstration but were unable to assess its relevancy or value." Neither could the defense attorney have been expected to know of the sophisticated rebuttal available to them. Janet Collins is already out of jail, has broken parole and lit out for parts unknown. But Judge Sullivan concluded that Malcolm Collins, who is still in prison at the California Conservation Center, had been subjected to "trial by mathematics" and was entitled to a reversal of his conviction. He could be tried again, but the odds are against...
...year old bachelor's sudden rise to power comes while he is still almost entirely unknown both to the Canadian people and to the incumbent Liberal Party which elected him. What is certain is that he has youthfulness and charisma, and it appears that these were the qualities that the Liberals were looking for when they met in Ottawa three weeks ago to choose a successor to 70-year old Lester B. Pearson, who had announced his retirement last winter...
...issue has also attracted crackpots who cite unknown medical authorities condemning fluoridation. The Boston Herald recently received a letter signed "Aqua" which read: "Fluoride taken even in minute quantities is highly poisonous and destructive to the body. According to the world famous Professor Otto Warburg, any interference with cell oxidation starts an abnormal process of fermentation which changes the normal cells into cancer cells...
...have to learn how, when, where and why to use how much marijuana. A common experience is to feel no effect whatsoever the first time marijuana is used. Quite contrary to the effects of alcohol's first use, this is probably a result of overexpectation, apprehension about the unknown, and the pervasive awareness of doing something illegal. This last aspect is one reason that photographed pot parties often look furtive and clandestine. "The first time I ever smoked pot, I got upset, frightened and sick," says a mid-thirtyish Chicago housewife...