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...deadlock stirred a Dixie-dozen legal reactions. The state attorney general petitioned Atlanta's federal district court to uphold the legislature's right to name the Governor. The American Civil Liberties Union filed two suits in the same court to void the anachronistic constitutional provision and order a new election. Callaway supporters asked the court to order a runoff between Callaway and Maddox, with write-ins barred. Yet another petition, brought by pro-Arnall forces, sought to permit write...
...nullity. New Yorker Harry Herscher happily quit paying his ex-wife Alice $125 a week when he discovered that she had been remarried for 68 weeks. Alice reclaimed alimony on a compelling ground: her second husband had not been divorced from a previous wife and her second marriage was void. Too bad, ruled New York Civil Court Judge Sidney H. Asch. Since Alice "intended to abrogate her right to support" when she remarried, Harry is off the hook for good...
...from the seamy publicity, Fein's wife Nancy sought to resume her maiden name of Nahon. Permission granted, ruled Judge George Starke last week. Not only has Fein lost all civil rights, from suing to voting to making contracts; any contract he ever made in the past is void, including his marriage. Indeed, Nancy Nahon is free to remarry, though not until the U.S. Supreme Court acts on Fein's appeal and his conviction becomes final...
...Under Massachusetts laws," the fine print reads, "this ticket is a revocable license. If sold or offered for sale at a premium it becomes void." During most of the year, this warning is about as relevant as the Nineteenth Amendment. As the Yale game approaches, ticket scalping becomes hysteric, and nothing can stop...
...Bible. Lured by ballyhoo or simple piety into the vast, glittering void of this enterprise-an experience roughly equivalent to being swallowed by a whale-a bored viewer will nonetheless feel twinges of gratitude. After all, it might have been worse. Producer Dino De Laurentiis originally intended to tackle the entire Old Testament, hiring every writer, actor and director in creation for a series of films running Lord knows how long. He has settled for 22 chapters of Genesis, compressed by Director John Huston into three hours of empty illustrations from Scripture...