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...corpus, but a dissenting opinion-written by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes with Charles Evans Hughes concurring-caused a sensation. "It is our duty," said the minority justices, "to declare lynch law as little valid when practiced by a regularly drawn jury as when administered by one elected by a mob intent on death...
Quick & Dead. After the wounded and dead were brought into Jasper, the county seat (pop. 5,000, including eight millionaires), a curious crowd gathered in front of the hospital. Leola Garlington, sister of the wounded brothers, burst through the mob, screaming at Sheriff Martel Mixon: "You son of a bitch. It's all your fault! If you'd been doing your job, this would never have happened...
...their mustard-colored uniforms and jaunty green berets, the Binh Xuyen of Saigon are probably the most exotic mob of hoodlums in Asia. Four thousand strong, they are the shock troops of the Saigon police, an empire of their own within the South Viet Nam state...
...revenue for Chief of State Bao Dai, who lives in luxury on the French Riviera. The Binh Xuyen is greatly feared in Saigon: its policemen recently beat a Vietnamese army contingent in pitched street fighting. The Binh Xuyen is also respected for its efficiency. One day last fall the mob closed down the city's small brothels, roped in the free-lance prostitutes and set up one monopolistic establishment, a great maze of mirrored cubicles called "Paradise...
...from "Mex Town," Angel Chavez makes his first fumbling pass at a local girl on a restricted stretch of San Juno's beach one night, and she drops dead of a rheumatic heart. A brassy, card-carrying lawyer named Barney Castle helps save the boy from a lynch mob and takes him on as a client, but only for the Commie purpose of using Angel's case as party-line propaganda. While he rakes in folding money at a "Free Angel Rally," Barney turns over the boy's actual defense to David Blake, a solemn young...