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...London's Times: "Would like to hear from people who dislike Americans and their reasons why. Please write Box R. 543." The ad produced not only 209 replies from as far away as California and Iraq and two columns for Buchwald,* but a rash of new ads putting Anglo-American relations to the test on both sides of the Atlantic...
Citation: "Skilled and creative in your employment of legal knowledge, sensitive arbiter of social conflicts, you speak for the finest tradition of Anglo-American...
...Jeremy Bentham's words, "the old woman's reason," pointing out that punishment itself is cruel; 2) "it constitutes a protection for the innocent" -that, according to Hook, is "far from conclusive until we know to what extent ... the guilty profit by it." The fact that in Anglo-American law a man is presumed innocent until proved guilty does not mean that his fellow citizens must abandon their common-sense judgments -"the common sense of the moral tradition of the Western world"-about his actions...
...this 95-minute film the writer has bodied out his characters, stropped sharp his implication that the defendant in the case is not only this jury but the entire jury system, and even justice itself as the Anglo-American mind conceives it. And with a mixture of classic craft and hard-cover whodunitism that sometimes suggests a weirdly successful collaboration between Aeschylus and Agatha Christie, Scenarist Rose has jittered his melodrama with fierce juridical excitement...
...major announced results of the conference was an Anglo-American "agreement in principle" that "certain guided missiles will be made available by the United States for use by British forces...