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...conservative Supreme Court for blocking urgently needed social and economic legislation. In 1927, he horrified proper Bostonians by attacking the murder case against Anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti as "a farrago of misquotations, misrepresentations, suppressions and mutilations." Irate alumni nearly got Frankfurter fired, but Harvard could hardly dump a man whom Justice Louis D. Brandeis called "the most useful lawyer in the United States...
...tactics the Buddhists employed in their 1963 campaign against Diem: a pretty, 17-year-old girl, Yen Phi (Flying Swallow), burned herself to death. In Sai gon, Khanh and his "Young Turk" officers-notably pistol-packing Air Force Chief Nguyen Cao Ky-decided that the time had come to dump Huong...
...killed a 15-year-old Filipino boy scavenging for scrap metal on Clark Air Force Base. The next month, two Marine Corps sentries at the U.S. naval base in Subic Bay killed one of a pair of Filipino fishermen who the marines believed were pilfering from a dockside ammo dump...
...back federal taxes, Contractor John J. Sexton countered with a remarkable claim for depreciating the 88.8-acre garbage dump that he owns in Chicago. Had he bought it for normal use, he said, the land would have cost $44,000. But the seller, realizing what the plot was to be used for, charged and got $150,000. The purchase included two 60-ft. garbage pits. When the holes are filled, Sexton told the Internal Revenue Service, the land will again be worth only $44,000. Sexton thus claimed a tax deduction for "wasting assets...
Johnson said it "wasn't much of a fire--just a lot of smoke." The couch is now at the city dump, because it "smelled too badly," he said...