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Whatever the law should be, said Katzenbach, it is "particularly irrelevant" to fret because police questioning may bother the poor the most-"the simple fact is that poverty is often a breeding ground for criminal conduct, and that inevitably any code of procedure is likely to affect more poor people than rich people." Indeed, argued Katzenbach, more effective police procedure would benefit the poor, "for it is they who live in the high-crime areas." In short, criminal justice can go only so far in seeking social equality -a goal that courts alone cannot reach -and then it is time...
Characteristically, Bahrein's ruler did not bother to deny the charges. "I do all I can for my people," said the Sheik, "and I am aware of the need for progress. But we will not be stampeded." As for the Arab line that Isa allows Britain to use his territory "for dirty intrigues," the Sheik shrugged: "We know who our friends are. We intend to continue our close friendship with Britain." As it happens, the British are under heavy pressure to give up their naval base at Aden when the Federation of South Arabia gains its independence...
...Widening process will involve the removal of the trees along the Memorial Hall sides of Quincy and Cambridge Streets. Herald L. Goyette, planning officer in the Harvard Planning Office, explained that that didn't bother the University, since the trees were all elms, and very susceptible to disease...
...world will not stop spinning to hear the answers. It had better not, because Author Connelly's untidy muse has not bothered to tie up every loose end. Characters muster on whim, and for the same reason dissolve like smoke; promising bends in the plot lead nowhere at all, like garden paths. This should bother no one but the literal-minded reader, who is seldom found in a chaise longue anyway...
...physician. A breeder of Chukar partridges, a leader in the fight to save the American chestnut tree, and a collector of Japanese swords, Oriental rugs and historical bells and whistles, Dr. Compton has few habits that require the frequent use of his chief product. That does not seem to bother him. He has strongly moved Miles into clinical testing devices and other profitable fields -and he also collects interesting facts. One fact in his collection: the world is consuming Alka-Seltzer at the rate of 56 million tablets a week...