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Ever since the Fourth Amendment was ratified, the question has been argued: When is a search reasonable? Last week the Supreme Court, by a 5-to-4 decision, drew a shaky line. The case was that of George Harris, a petty criminal of Oklahoma City. FBI agents had warrants for his arrest for suspected forgery. They seized him in his four-room apartment, then searched the whole apartment for two concealed checks. They never found them. Instead, after five hours' search, they found a well-concealed envelope marked "personal papers," which contained eight notices of classification and eleven draft...
...majority of the Justices took an empirical view. The test of reasonableness, wrote Chief Justice Vinson, varied with each case. A search for objects connected with a crime was legal in certain circumstances. In this case, the search was reasonable. It had to be intensive because of the small size of the objects searched for. The search was made "in good faith" and not as a pretext for looking for something else. The draft cards were seized legally...
...petite but spirited blend speedster was last seen in the stretch just short of the treacherous Chapel turn, running easily and widening a big lead. Rumors of foul play were quickly squelched by the Wellesley publicity offices, but the Cambridge daily had its best men conducting a Waban-wide search last night for suspicious circumstances in the shadows of Tower Court...
...narrative of the violent Kentuckian's search for his love has the poetic improbability of something that might actually have happened. He finds her and joins her tribe, the Piegans, in the mountain valley of the Teton River, "winding, busy but unhurried, with a mind and time to have a look at things as it went along." Living with the Indians suits Boone. "A man could sit and let time run on while he smoked or cut on a stick with nothing nagging him and the squaws going about their business and the young ones playing, making out that...
...wonder Harvard men turned to their now-legendary antics," spouted a committee spokesman yesterday as he flipped through his file of available women. His somewhat subjective attitude is perhaps understandable in the light of the three weeks he spent leafing through local model agencies in search of guest talent for Saturday's formal...