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Lung Alley. Dabbing tears from his eyes, Dubinsky, 74, had his resignation read before a meeting of his directors, who forthwith appointed a committee to persuade him to stay on. But he was not to be swayed. "I don't want to die in my boots," he insisted. "I don't want a free funeral...
...threatened to tar and feather him. He had contempt for anyone who walked away from a fight. That included famed Kit Carson, who served under him as an Indian agent. Carson prudently ran away and hid when a gathering of Ute and Apache Indians became threatening. Meriwether suspended him forthwith. After Carson sent an abject letter of apology, Meriwether grudgingly reinstated him, but as long as the semiliterate Carson remained in his service Meriwether issued reprimands about his sloppy administration. "Poor Kit," he said, "was a good trapper, hunter, and guide, and . . . had acquired a reputation which spoiled...
...point where such coercion starts is often difficult to define. As a result, the FBI, which gathers evidence for federal courts in which the Fifth unquestionably applies, routinely warns all suspects of their rights to silence and to counsel. On arrest, a federal prisoner must be arraigned forthwith before the neatest U.S. commissioner and supplied with a lawyer if he cannot afford one-all of which upholds the constitutional guarantee against serf-incrimination...
With that, the campaign caught fire. Dumont demanded that Genovese be dismissed or suspended, called on Hughes to join him in the ouster call. Hughes refused, siding loftily with Voltaire rather than Genovese, and forthwith nailed academic freedom into his platform. At Hughes's request, Rutgers' board of governors conducted an investigation, found that Genovese had done nothing to incur dismissal, and upheld his right to free speech. Nevertheless, the Genovese case turned into the Jersey equivalent of the Dreyfus affair...
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was aquiver with rage and frustration-as usual. Addressing a press conference in Pakistan's capital of Rawalpindi, the hawk-nosed Foreign Minister announced that because of Malaysia's "immoral, hostile and unfriendly" attitude on the Kashmir question, Pakistan was severing diplomatic relations forthwith. Thus, last week, Pakistan became the first member of the British Commonwealth ever to cut its ties with another...