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...another personal victory will not satisfy Mel Laird and the other ex-Goldwaterites who are watching Romney. They want a nominee with coattails, and to date Romney has not led a single Republican running mate to victory in a state-wide election. Nor are the Republicans likely to recapture the reapportioned State House or Senate this year. Republicans will probably win back one to three of the four Congressional seats they lost in 1964, but that may not be enough to convince hard-boiled national convention delegates to abandon the more congenial Richard Nixon...
Northeastern and Tufts tied for fourth with 879's. M.I.T. scored 882 for sixth, and Brandeis finished last with 892. B.U.'s Mel Weinberger fired a 73, 74--147 for the low 36-hole total, running away from the field by 15 shots...
...wonder why the U.S. press and public spent seven weeks following the affairs of burly Melvin Powers, 24, and his lissome, lippy aunt, Candace Mossler, 46, in intimate detail. Most lawyers, though, are morally certain that they know exactly why a Miami jury so easily acquitted Candy and Mel of killing her millionaire husband, Jacques Mossler, 69: the defendants had in their corner hulking, booming Houston Lawyer Percy Foreman, whose never-failing tactic is to act as if the murder victim, not the suspect, were on trial. By "trying" everyone except his clients, Foreman has lost a defendant...
...represented Melvin Powers and called signals for a team of defense lawyers, Foreman confronted wholly circumstantial evidence-and the relatively easy job of raising a reasonable doubt in the jurors' minds. According to Prosecutor Richard Gerstein, who had won 24 previous capital cases, Aunt Candy and Nephew Mel had lived and loved together on Financier Mossler's money. Aggrieved over their lurid affair, Mossler allegedly planned a divorce that would have cut off their income and her potential inheritance. To avoid that disaster, argued Gerstein, Mel jetted over from Houston to Miami one June day in 1964, jumped...
...master cross-examiner, Foreman made hash of the state's witnesses-a clutch of convicts and others who told in gutter argot of assorted sexual stunts that they said Mel boasted of performing with Candy. Sex, the defense scoffed, does not prove murder. After one Texas thief and drug addict testified that Candy gave him $7,000 to kill Mossler, and an ex-con carnival worker said that Mel offered $10,000 for the same job, the defense produced both men's wives to testify that their husbands were liars. Another con, who claimed that Mel had asked...