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...words were producing scare headlines about possible new violence, House Minority Leader Gerald Ford leaped at the opportunity to get even for the cracks that have been coming his way lately from the White House. He said the President's remarks amounted to "an invitation to trigger terrorism in the streets...
Marcom is busy finding more uses for its invention. Last May, a San Jose, Calif., burglar learned about one of them. When he slipped open the window of a house whose owner was away on vacation, he unknowingly tripped a trigger that set the diverter to silently dialing the police. When the cops answered the phone, the diverter sounded a coded buzz. By checking their key, the police could identify the source of the call, soon had a prowl...
Katzenbach was spurred to action by the fact that while federal examiners were registering an average of 1,900 Negroes a day in the nine counties originally selected for action under the act's "trigger" formula, local registrars elsewhere were still turning away or intimidating most would-be voters...
...were only "little men" acting on orders, and hence were themselves not responsible for the crimes. Demolishing that defense, Judge Hofmeyer declared: "It would be a mistake to say these men are not as guilty because they were only small cogs in the machinery. The man who pulled the trigger as well as the man who gave the order to fire is guilty." But he steered clear of broader questions of political or moral guilt, insisting on evidence of "concrete murder, precisely proved." Even so, there was evidence enough to sentence six men, including Wilhelm Boger, 59, the "Butcher...
Stagnation or Default? The economic Battle of Britain is only beginning. The pound faces another crisis in the fall, when seasonally unfavorable trade figures are likely to trigger another run on sterling. The National Institute of Economic and Social Research last week warned that Britain, by crimping its economy to balance its trade, is likely to suffer a halt in economic growth...