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...revealed that his mind's true affinity was with the middle ages-the time of logic-chopping commentaries on sacred texts. The letter to Nixon abounded in careful placings in context, the drawing of fine distinctions, the painstaking elucidation of meaning-in short, commentary on the ambiguities of Holy Writ. When this latest effort was added to the mountainous textual exegesis of the infamous two sentences already produced by the Disciples and by the Heretics, it was clear that never in the political history of words had so many owed so much...
Joseph L. Chestnut, Jr., one of the lawyers for Wiley and the other jailed workers, told the Summer News last night that a writ of habeas corpus would be sought in the Federal District Court for southern Alabama this morning, in an attempt to free the four workers arrested Saturday...
However they may fail themselves, though, incarcerated counselors are busier than ever aiding other inmates. Texas' Huntsville Prison now has a "writ room," where prisoners can polish up petitions like collegians in the library. Kansas State Penitentiary offers a big law library, partly the gift of beneficent lawyers. At Washington's State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, a special "law wing" provides typewriters as well as texts. Some prisoners are getting so legalistic, complains a Tennessee state prosecutor, that "it's getting a damned sight harder to keep them in than to put them...
...sense, it is absurd to find Communists today fighting each other-and the rest of the world-over a tomb, with a mass of dated polemics used both as sacred writ and a manual of strategy. But unlike monarchists, Reds cannot find legitimacy in a family tree or by divine right. Unlike democrats, they do not draw their mandate from the people they rule. Communist legitimacy, such as it is, derives from the writings of Karl Marx and from the words and deeds of Lenin, the first man to apply Marxism to a living nation...
...spent two weeks in jail awaiting a trial in which she could expect the absolute maximum: six months in jail, twelve months in the county work camp, and a $1,000 fine. Hipped on Race. To her amazement, and Pye's ire, Defendant Hall escaped. Armed with a writ of habeas corpus, U.S. marshals whisked her out of her cell and freed her on $1,000 bond. "The United States Government has taken said defendant away," roared Judge Pye. "The court is physically unable to proceed with the trial." The court also was unable to try 58 other civil...