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...fires up a secret still, a moonshiner violates no fewer than eleven federal laws, including one that commands him to display a sign "disclosing his name and occupation." Even so, moonshiners are tougher to catch than Viet Cong guerrillas. They booby-trap stills, wire the woods with hidden buzzers, warn one another with trained dogs and walkie-talkies. Only the best-trained woodsmen among federal agents can track them, usually at night when both sides flit through the back hills armed to the teeth...
...York, three sizable U.S. textile companies canceled contracts with West German suppliers in protest. "Once again, as we did in 1914 and 1933, we warn the world that the German bell tolls again," announced the Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A. in full-page newspaper ads. "We believe that the weaknesses and defects latent in the German character once again have begun to show signs of dominating German life...
...Peace Corps, who acknowledge only its "fringe benefits" and argue that it should not be regarded as a substitute for real economic development. Eric Sevareid, for example, admits that the Corps gives "frustrated American youth a sense of mission" and adds "to our comprehension of other societies." But he warn that "while the Corps has something to do with spot benefits in a few isolated places, whether in sanitizing drinking water or building culverts its work has and can have, very little to do with the fundamental investments, reorganizations and reforms upon which the true and long-term economic development...
...Portuguese alien, whose car was involved in a collision at a Providence intersection. A policeman asked Gonsalves if he had stopped before proceeding with caution past a flashing red traffic light. When Gonsalves said no, the cop issued an on-the-spot summons. Because the cop failed to warn Gonsalves that he did not have to answer and could consult a lawyer, Police Court Judge Peter K. Rosedale sprung him. Escobedo, said the judge, reaches "even overtime parking. I feel such misdemeanors are, in a technical sense, crimes. The same constitutional rights apply to the most minor misdemeanor...
Depression memories die hard, and no matter how strong the U.S. economy may seem, there are always those who warn that "we are merely postponing a cyclical downturn." Or "we'll level off in the second half." Or simply: "What goes up must come down...