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...organizing" were excluded. (Although some critics, including dissenting Justice Clark, said the court was invading the province of the jury, the Constitution clearly gives the Supreme Court appellate jurisdiction "both as to Law and Fact"). Result: the court ordered that five of the defendants (including Slim Connelly) must be freed entirely, but that the other nine could be tried again on the sole basis of their "advocacy and teaching...
Righting the Wrongs. Reviewing the disaster, Hanoi newspapers confessed: "We have killed friends, struck comrades. The countryside was full of funeral altars and mourning widows wearing white turbans around their heads." Twelve thousand "falsely accused" peasants were freed; rehabilitated landlords were promised their land back. For some 15,000 men who had been tortured and flung into common graves, the regime offered decent graves and public funerals. Comrades executed by "mistake" were posthumously declared "national heroes...
...Vats Veritas. In Chicago, Andrew Mulligan, charged with drunken driving, was freed when he explained that police had arrested him just after he had worked eight hours cleaning brewery vats...
...could not be denied that having dabbled in every age he was better prepared to discuss English Literature with his friends and to discourse learnedly about the Western tradition. The only difficulty here was that once freed from the Harvard influence he never discussed anything of the sort, and the things which had meaning to him alone were buried in this mass of external tradition...
...next two or three years, Fleming said, American cotton growers will be able to "feel their way" back into world competition. Making the outlook most encouraging, he said, are two facts. One is the continuing expansion of industry in the old Cotton Belt, which is absorbing farmers freed from the hardscrabble, impoverished existence of old-style farming. The other is the competitive advantage of better mechanization enjoyed by American agriculture over foreign growers. With foreign living standards rising rapidly, aid Fleming, the market for cotton is increasing at the rate of a million bales of cotton each year. U.S. growers...