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Conventioneers in Phoenix hit especially hard at the Supreme Court's 1961 decision in Mapp v. Ohio, a case involving seizure of obscene materials without a warrant. The court held that evidence obtained through "unreasonable searches and seizures" should be barred from criminal prosecutions in state courts, just as the Fourth Amendment bars such evidence from federal courts. "The effect," said Maryland D.A. William J. O'Donnell, "is almost making the streets safe for criminals...
...handsomest fringe benefit in U.S. business is the stock option, a corporate incentive that enables a good many executives to make fortunes beyond their salaries. Like a warrant or a "call," the option is a device that enables a man to buy stock at a fixed price long after the shares have risen above that price. Last week's tax bill removes some of the glamour from the stock option, but will not easily stop the growth of an incentive that is now used by two-thirds of the nation's public companies...
...report of the Surgeon General's committee, of which Fieser is a member, concluded that "cigarette smoking is a health hazard of sufficient importance in the United States to warrant appropriate remedial action...
...conclusion was just about what everybody had expected. "On the basis of prolonged study and evaluation," the 150,000-word report declared, "the committee makes the following judgment: Cigarette smoking is a health hazard of sufficient importance in the U.S. to warrant appropriate remedial action." More significant than the words was their source: it was the unanimous report of an impartial committee of top experts in several health fields, backed by the full authority of the U.S. Government...
...Harvard professors helped to draft the U.S. Surgeon General's report on "Smoking and Health" released Saturday. The report concluded that "cigarette smoking is a health hazard of sufficient importance in the United States to warrant appropriate remedial action...