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...report last month drew attention once more to the needs of the Negro there. Yorty, who disdains reading from prepared texts, appeared with an assortment of somewhat disorganized exhibits that seemed to affect the committee much as a red flag affects a bull. And, not least, Bobby Kennedy and Abe Ribicoff, who as Governor of Connecticut had been among the first to support Jack Kennedy's presidential bid, saw before them a maverick Democrat who supported Richard Nixon in 1960 and wrote a pamphlet called "I Cannot Take Kennedy...
George Washington gazes benignly out from the $1 bill; Abe Lincoln graces the $5; Alexander Hamilton the $10; and even Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury, Salmon P. Chase, lives in the eyes of Americans-though not too many of them-on the $10,000 bill. Thomas Jefferson has had a deuce of a time. Since 1869, his face has adorned the $2 bill, but folks have never really warmed up to the twosies. In the days of freewheeling ward politics, a $2 bill was often taken as a sign of a bought vote; shopkeepers found them increasingly bothersome...
...behalf of Dissenters Earl Warren, William Brennan and Abe Fortas, Justice William O. Douglas argued that the defendants in the Greenwood case should also have been allowed removal. The federal courts can and do eventually overturn unjust state decisions, he conceded, but such ultimate vindication, he added wryly, comes only if defendants "persevere, live long enough, and have the patience and the funds to carry their cases for some years through the state courts to this court...
Speaking for a slim 5-to-4 majority, Warren made it clear that he, along with Justices Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, Abe Fortas and William Brennan, was convinced that questioning in the back room of a police station-the kind of questioning that led to all four confessions under consideration last week-is inherently coercive. Even if there is no physical intimidation, said the Chief Justice, the suspect in "police custody, surrounded by antagonistic forces, and subjected to the techniques of persuasion" that are the stock in trade of the modern interrogator, "cannot be otherwise than under compulsion...
...FLOWER. French sex farces center around a door. Through it, one lover rushes. Behind it, the other lover hides. When it creaks open, it suggests suspicion. When it slams, it declares the end of the affair. In this latest Paris import, Actors Barry Nelson and Lauren Bacall and Director Abe Burrows make frequent and funny...