Word: warned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best guess of Washington lawyers is that the court may simply require police to warn prime suspects of their rights-partly because the court may now be as closely divided as it was in Escobedo. When Justice Goldberg departed for the U.N., he left eight Justices who had split 4 to 4 in that case. His successor, Justice Fortas, made eloquently clear during the arguments that he views the court's "vexatious, tormented" decision no differently than he did when he was on the other side of the bench winning the right to counsel for Florida Indigent Clarence Gideon...
...game was invented by the Chinese.* As subsequently developed by the Japanese, Go is surrounded by an elaborate code of courtesy. "Sit up straight-do not lounge over the board," goes one stern directive. "Do not blow smoke in your opponent's face," goes another. Players must politely warn opponents of impending capture by saying "Atari," to which the frequent reply is "Komatta na!"-meaning "Oh, what a mess...
Even these devices are just a prelude. The auto companies are experimenting with a "drivometer"-a device attached to the brake, accelerator and steering apparatus that would warn a driver when he is performing sloppily. Ford is well along with a "wrist steer"-two small wheels at the driver's side that would replace the dangerous steering shaft. Engineers at G.M. are tinkering with "unicontrol," a sort of auto pilot that would pick up directional signals from the road...
...elephant's numbers (45-48) on its license plates, the betting is unusually heavy. A few years ago, when the Rio papers published the picture of a derailed locomotive, so many bet on the last four figures of its registration number that the bicheiros were forced to warn that they could not pay off at the usual odds if it won. To the surprise of practically everybody, it didn...
...wing organizations to register as Communist fronts under the Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950, has had little luck to date. Despite the long-drawn-out appeals that have stymied it in most cases, the department believes nonetheless that simply by publishing the facts about such groups, it can warn away many innocents and alert unwary members. With this in mind, it started proceedings last week to force the campus-oriented W.E.B. DuBois Clubs to register as a Communist front...