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...striking trend in favor of the plaintiff in damage suits, with ever bigger awards and ever broader liability. Such charitable institutions as churches have been held liable to the extent of having to pay damages out of their previously sacrosanct trust funds. The trend has even shaken the old common-law principle that a government entity is immune from damage claims as long as it stays within the bounds of strictly governmental activities ("The King can do no wrong''). Only last May, the Illinois Supreme Court declared that government immunity to damage suits rests...
...Senate vacancies the Democrats nominated Oren E. Long, 70, a Territorial Senator and onetime Territorial Governor, and Territorial Senator Frank Fasi, 38, who upset William H. Heen, venerable 76-year-old Territorial ex-Senator, who had come out of retirement to make the race. The Republicans nominated Businessman Hiram L. Fong, 52, and Territorial Senator Wilfred Tsukiyama...
Heads hung in belated remorse, four young Florida white men stood in a Tallahassee courtroom last week to be sentenced for raping a 19-year-old Negro coed seven times at point of knife and shotgun. On the bench sat Circuit Judge W. (for William) May Walker, 54, a snow-haired tree of a man (6 ft. 2 in., 220 lbs.) and a lifelong Floridian, whose love for the South is exceeded only by his dedication to equal justice under the law. "Yours was a horrible and deplorable crime, committed under horrible circumstances," said the judge. And then he handed...
...Judge Walker called the defendants by name: Willion ("Ted") Collinsworth, 23, an illiterate chronic drunk, who cried when his wife Pearlie and two-year-old son rushed up to him before he was sentenced; Patrick Scarborough, 20, orphaned at seven, when his mother was killed in a barroom brawl and his father committed suicide; David Ervin Beagles, 18, a gum-chomping high school senior who held a switchblade knife to the girl's throat before the assault; Ollio Stoutamire, 16, a sometime juvenile delinquent, who has been raised by assorted relatives since his mother's death...
Cowardly Alibi. But the occasion had left a bad taste all around. Since then, newspapers have taken to criticizing Nehru with a new bluntness; old opponents use stronger language. Seemingly oblivious, Nehru in January rammed through a series of resolutions to socialize Indian agriculture, calling for a limit on land ownership and the formation of cooperatives in India's 600,000 villages within three years (an impossible timetable that would require the founding of 500 cooperatives...