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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-7 p.m.). Now that Cassius Clay is no longer recognized as heavyweight champion of the world, the rest of the boys are slugging it out in an "elimination tournament" to find a new champ. On this card: Leotis Martin (ninth-ranked) v. Jimmy Ellis (ranked eighth), and Ernie Terrell (fourth-ranked) v. Thad Spencer (fifth-ranked). Live from Houston's Astrodome...
...programs of recent years led many a Negro to expect that equality and prosperity were just around the next corner. "It hasn't happened," said Michigan's Governor George Romney, "and a lot of people are frustrated and bitter about it." "Nothing is so unstable," said William V. Shannon in the New York Times, "as a bad situation that is beginning to improve." Outside agitation may play a role after riots get under way-but rarely has much to do with starting them in the first place...
...V. Off-Campus Freedom of Students...
Until recently, American courts consistently held that an alcoholic was responsible for his public drunkenness, because he had started drinking voluntarily. But in 1962, the Supreme Court began eroding that fiction by ruling in Robinson v. California that drug addiction is a sickness that cannot be deemed a crime without violating the Eighth Amendment guarantee against "cruel and unusual punishment." In 1966, two U.S. appellate courts invoked Robinson to excuse alcoholics from charges of public intoxication. Yet in this past term, the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal from an alcoholic despite a sharp dissent by Justice Abe Fortas...
...Germans and a mound of Pounds from the British. Neither side trusts him completely-with good reason. He is not a single or a double agent, but a triple one, in business for himself. Still, in the end, he does aid Britain by giving Germany false information, thus misguiding V-2 rockets and saving thousands of lives...