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Burden of Proof. In Warsaw, after a special court was opened to provide quick hearings on arrests for fighting and drunkenness, one of the first cases, involving two men nabbed in a brawl, was postponed because witnesses were too drunk to testify...
...lawyer for the Klemm twins--the two South Boston figure skaters who were hospitalized after a Leverett House brawl in April, 1957--has obtained access to the girls' commitment papers, which were under a court impounding order, and stated that they "have been done a grave injustice...
...theocratic state run by the mullahs. Corruption and instability compound Pakistan's woes. Food shortages are chronic, and foreign-exchange reserves are at an alltime low. Only last month, in East Pakistan's Provincial Assembly, the Deputy Speaker of the House was fatally injured in a parliamentary brawl (TIME...
...production, as directed by Harold Clurman, sheds helpful light as well. Eric Portman's Con is often unintelligible, but it conveys a dynamic power of acting, a demonic possession of the role; and Kim Stanley as Sara shows something of the same fierce stir and brawl. In the role of Con's wife, which O'Neill sentimentalizes a little, Helen Hayes provides a needed counter-effect-a muted violin against the snarl of brass...
Though the eleven-year-old republic of Pakistan has yet to hold its first general election, its politicians stage some of the fiercest parliamentary battles of the British Commonwealth. Last week in Dacca, the evenly matched government and opposition forces of East Pakistan waged the biggest brawl in the young country's brief history...