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...frowzy-and unlocked-communal bathroom where the killer waited for more than an hour before he could fire the fatal shot, investigators found a handprint, a thumbprint and an expended casing from his rifle. On the street outside the rooming house, where he occupied Room 5 with a clear view of King's motel across the way, he dropped his rifle and a blue overnight bag containing some clothes. All of these items and imprints gave the FBI and Memphis police a microscopic field day whose yield should provide invaluable courtroom evidence...
...dissented from the conviction and wrote a dissenting opinion that expressed some of my distaste for the whole proceeding-which opinion was found so sharp as to warrant the censorship of non-publication in the official reports. The reversal on appeal of the co-defendant cannot set aright the fatal judicial wrong done Lenny Bruce-a wrong that is one of the reasons for my retirement from the bench...
Hematologists have long sought ways to prevent the formation of dangerous and possibly fatal blood clots. First there was heparin, extracted from the livers and lungs of beef cattle. Then came coumarins, made from rotted sweet clover. Now some British researchers believe they have found what they want in the venom of a Malayan pit viper, close kin to American rattlesnakes...
Senator McCarthy's success in New Hampshire will deal a serious, perhaps fatal, blow to the radical anti-war movement at Harvard and across the country...
...traffic safety field. Repeatedly the institutions that have encouraged this belief have been challenged to produce acceptable evidence that it is so. Just as repeatedly the challenge has been ignored. Although the use of alcohol by drivers is known to be the chief factor in the initiation of fatal crashes, this constant emphasis on the culpability of drivers probably has the effect of lessening anxiety about the driving task: if accidents are the fault of drivers, then the individual has some control over his future. The gods of the highway punish only those who behave badly. It is also possible...