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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moot replies in Spanish from two Puerto Rican complainants in a disorderly-conduct case. Was there an interpreter in the house? Up stepped Danny Escobedo, 29 (TIME Cover, April 29), who has been kindly disposed toward the law ever since 1964's Supreme Court decision in Escobedo v. Illinois, voiding his murder confession on grounds that he was denied his rights to counsel. Since his parents are Mexican, Escobedo was sworn in as an interpreter and translated the Puerto Ricans' side of the case. A few minutes later, Danny was before the court himself, and the judge dismissed...
...answer has had to be based on precedent. Ever since Wright v. Mt. Mansfield Lift, Inc. in Vermont 16 years ago, it has been held that the skier assumes certain obvious risks when he starts down a slope. If he is unfortunate enough to run smack into a stump or a buried fence, it is usually considered not to be the fault of the stump or the stump's owners. Conversely, when a skier is heading uphill on a lift, the lift owner is usually liable for any injury suffered because of mechanical collapse or breakdown unless the injured...
...Rules. There have been few such cases. Easter v. Segelbaum, decided in Washington state, is typical. Easter, who had been standing in a tow line, successfully recovered damages from Segelbaum, who had come whizzing off the end of the trail, slicing one of Easter's left leg tendons. But most collisions result in no suit, in part because no rule clearly spells out who is to blame. In Europe, where skiing ranks right behind traffic and industry as the leading everyday accident hazard, the problem is more serious...
...year was scarcely three weeks old, and its step on Wall Street seemed springy indeed. With a burst of daily trading that surprised brokers-a daily average of 9,544,000 shares v. 7,500,000 last year-chart lines for the New York Stock Exchange pointed almost steadily upward. Boosted at midweek by a one-day gain of 10.41 points, the Dow-Jones industrial average finished the week 12.03 points higher than it began. Overall, the industrials had risen 61.47 since the year began, stood at week's end at 847.16, or as high again as they were...
...Passive v. Active. If marihuana is really as relatively harmless as its partisans claim, why is it that the public, law enforcers and physicians are so dead set against it? An intriguing though far from convincing reply to that question comes from Dr. H.B.M. Murphy in a 1963 article in the United Nations' "Bulletin on Narcotics." What puts people off, says Murphy thoughtfully, is that pot users become passivists in a world that values activity. "In Anglo-Saxon cultures," he writes, "inaction is looked down on and often feared, whereas overactivity, aided by alcohol or independent of alcohol...