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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More are Lee White, Chairman of the Federal Power Commission, Feb. 26-28; George Romney, Governor of Michigan, March 13-15; Bayard Ruston, Executive Director of the A. Philip Randolph Institute, March 27-29; John V. Lindsay, Mayor of New York City, April 23-25; and Carl Sanders, Governor of Georgia...
...Press v. Privacy. After obscenity, the court faces more redolence: Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa's 1963 conviction (eight years, $10,000) for fixing a 1962 Tennessee jury that acquitted him of the charge of taking a bribe from a trucking company. Hoffa protests that the Justice Department's tampering evidence came from a "spy," planted among his entourage, who violated his right to counsel by attending some of Hoffa's conferences with his attorney. Hoffa Lawyer Z. T. Osborn Jr., who got 3½ years for tampering with another Hoffa jury, protests the Government...
...another key privacy case (Time Inc. v. James J. Hill), the novel issue is whether the First Amendment right of free press limits a state-law remedy for invasion of privacy. LIFE ran a photo review of the 1955 play The Desperate Hours, noting its apparent parallels to an incident involving the real-life Hill family, whose home had been invaded by escaped convicts. Citing inaccuracies, Hill won a $30,000 New York award under a privacy law that may sometimes make even honestly erring news reports actionable if the subject did not consent to the story and the publisher...
...from trying anyone twice for the same offense, but that particular Bill of Rights provision has yet to be applied to the states. As one result, the Supreme Court ruled in 1959 that a person can be tried for the same crime in both federal and state courts (Bartkus v. Illinois). As another, Indiana's top court last year rejected the federal standard, upholding Ronald R. Cichos' retrial and conviction for reckless homicide while tossing out his claim of double jeopardy. If Cichos wins his Supreme Court appeal, all American courts will have to use the federal double...
...accompany the gift, Museum Director James Johnson Sweeney has assembled the first U.S. retrospective of Chillida, a man who. only began sculpting in 1948, was a Carnegie prize-winner in 1964, and today ranks as Spain's leading abstract sculptor. His granite giant, called Abesti Gogora V, which means "strong song" in Chillida's native Basque, seemed a fitting cornerstone to Houston's cultural boom...