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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next day the Communists pulled in their horns. Only one MIG was anywhere to be seen, and it stayed far away from U.S. jets. Total score in 18 months of on-again-off-again air combat: 21 Communist planes shot down v. four American...
Pioneered by two California Supreme Court decisions in 1956 and 1961, the "open file" concept of criminal trials received considerable impetus in 1963 when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brady v. Maryland that before any verdict, the prosecutor is constitutionally compelled to disclose all information "favorable" to the defendant. Pretrial discovery, which is now being actively considered by New Jersey's high court, took one of its biggest steps forward in federal courts last July under the Supreme Court's sweeping revision of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, which had previously entitled federal defendants to discover...
...electronic devices installed in the presidential limousines so that he can drink in the applause of the populace as he drives by. He may soon need an amplifier. The Louis Harris poll reported last week that only 50% of the American public now endorses the President v. 83% in February 1964; the Gallup poll shows an 8% decline, from 56% to 48%, in two months...
...tinguished, 42-year career on Capitol Hill* that included four years as Speaker of the House of Representatives and 20 years as Republican leader, went down to defeat in the G.O.P. primary at the hands of an aggressive woman candidate who based her campaign on the same youth-v.-age attack that Martin had used to win his first election. Hennahaired Mrs. Margaret Heckler, 35, a pert, petite (5 ft. 21 in.) lawyer-housewife from Boston's upper-class suburb of Wellesley, tossed Martin's own 1924 quotes back at him with the comment: "If the country needed...
Loosening Hobble. Then, last June, the Supreme Court encouraged those who argue that the 14th Amendment should be the main conduit of equal rights. By a vote of 7 to 2, the court ruled in Katzenbach v. Morgan that Congress may enforce the 14th Amendment by enacting a federal law that displaces a state law-even though the state law does not itself violate the 14th...