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Muzzled Lawyers. Precisely, agrees Judge George C. Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, who last week called the A.B.A. proposals "the most dangerous threat to American ideals of free speech and press since the days of Joe McCarthy." Edwards, who once voted to reverse Dr. Sam Sheppard's murder conviction in an opinion that foreshadowed the recent Supreme Court decision in the Sheppard case, is mainly worried that pretrial controls will leave defense lawyers "muzzled" and "prosecutions corrupted against the public interest." The real pressure, says Edwards, should be on trial judges to "make...
Similar views were expressed last week by Judge Harold R. Medina of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, who chairs the New York City bar association's fair-trial committee. In its own forthcoming report on the subject, said Medina, his committee will differ sharply with the A.B.A.'s pretrial proposals on the ground that American judges lack power to discipline police and news media until a case comes to trial. For one thing, the Constitution's separation of governmental powers limits the judicial branch in controlling police, who belong to the executive branch...
Even with a highball from the appeals court, the Penn Central will have to maintain its milk-train speed for a while. The protesting railroads announced that they were taking the case to the Supreme Court; they petitioned Justice John Harlan, who as judicial overseer of the U.S. Second Circuit handles such appeals from New York, to grant a stay so that the full court can hear their arguments...
With a system called "Sketchpad," which he originated while a graduate student at M.I.T., a computer operator can draw a diagram of an electric circuit or a picture of something like an airplane wing, using an electronic "light pen" on a special screen...
...from The Beginning to the end. The Word is interpreted altogether literally, neither revitalized with the logic of drama nor illuminated by the magic of myth. The film simply plunges ahead with quasi-King Jamesian narration, supplied by Playwright Christopher Fry and spoken by Huston himself, a mighty celestial circuit rider on the sound track. "God blessed them and said: Multiply," the voice intones, clearing the way for a shot of fuzzy, nuzzling seals and simultaneously raising questions of identity. There is somebody up there, all right, but who? A director, a Deity, or Our Man in Disneyland...