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...about the best legal weapon available to the universities. Within the past few months, it has worked not only at Columbia, but also at the University of Buffalo, Stanford and other schools. The governing body of the university, most often the board of trustees, obtains the court order. The writ usually covers both the demonstrators and opposing groups that might cause trouble. It restrains all persons from taking over buildings or causing other disruption...
...original plea of guilty means that his sole recourse to obtain a new trial is through a writ of habeas corpus. He told the judge that he would soon be filing such a petition. "I understand this man's a pretty fair jailhouse lawyer," Battle noted. Ray may also receive professional help. Last week he wrote to his previous defender, Arthur J. Hanes. Then Lawyer J. B. Stoner of Savannah, Ga., a lifelong anti-Negro and anti-Semitic agitator, announced that he would represent Ray in several libel suits...
...Zapata did become more sophisticated. Men with grander schemes and more education became his aides and wrote grand statements for him to sign. He reached stages of exhaustion and hope when he was willing to have his subordinates compromise the simple, campesino-oriented "Plan de Ayala" which was Holy Writ to the Zapatistas. But personally, Zapata tended to avoid important parleys, as though aware that in the eyes of him fighting men any dealing was dishonest dealing, all overt politics dirty politics. That be never grew political may appear to be a tribute to Zapata's revolutionary purity...
...light, Reasoner said in an interview last week: "I think light is just as much a part of news as heavy. What I resent is the implication that merely because you see something funny, you are going to take that attitude toward everything." He explains that when he started writ ing his quips, "I wouldn't guarantee to write one every day. Sometimes the news just isn't funny...
...ventured a prediction for the future of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.: "If we and the Soviet Union escape war in the next 30 years, we'll both wind up practically with the same economic system. I emphasize the word economic. It will be the welfare state writ large. I hope we won't lose our democracy, and I hope Russia will get more...