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...many English concentrators. One honors candidate, for example, had a test and a paper due on April 22, a test on April 24, a test on April 26, and a paper due on April 27. In one course, he was informed of the test date less than two weeks beforehand. With each hour test weighing as much as a three-hour final examination, this senior decided to take the final in one course, judging the barrage of April requirements too much to withstand. Luckily, a friend told him just in time that his decision to forego the honors test meant...
...auctioneer of Peter Wilson, the 6-ft. 4-in. chairman of Sotheby's of London, who last year bought out Manhattan's Parke-Bernet. Wilson suavely built up the prices with Etonian aplomb. "You have to act like a croupier in a casino," he had explained beforehand. "Not a flash. Not a flicker...
Before the stop and frisk law was passed, a thief could sometimes beat arrest in New York even if a cop caught him carrying concealed loot-unless the cop reasonably believed beforehand that a theft had been committed. But even the new New York law is not necessarily constitutional. If detention really means arrest, then it must meet the standards of probable cause. And recent Supreme Court decisions indicate that state courts must exclude evidence seized during searches accompanying arrests made without probable cause. In short, a search cannot be justified by its fruits alone...
...Lancelotian request for school textbooks, a native woman who wanted the Marines to arrange a baptism, scores of requests for food and medical aid, and a village chieftain who refused to deal with anyone less than the U.S. commander himself. That commander, General Hurst, had been given little notion beforehand of the devilish difficulties that Krulak...
...doctor suggested that if a student feels he must take dexedrine or benzedrine he should test his reaction to the drug beforehand. He cited an example of a student who came to him "almost irrational" from a pill taken to keep him alert during a final exam...