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...Hitler's hope of somehow reversing Germany's military fortunes. On June 23, the Soviets launched a gigantic midsummer offensive across a 300-mile front east of Minsk and demolished 28 German divisions within a month. On July 20, Hitler's own Wehrmacht officers turned against him. Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg planted under Hitler's conference table a bomb that was supposed to kill the Führer. A shaken and partly deafened Hitler survived to wreak vengeance on the conspirators (even Rommel, who was not directly involved, was forced to take poison) and to add a manic streak...
...spiciest cases of the decade, and now it may start up all over again. The Rhode Island Supreme Court last week overturned the conviction of Newport Socialite Claus Von Bülow, the Danish-born playboy convicted in 1982 of twice attempting to murder his heiress wife Martha, an ailing multimillionaire, by injecting her with overdoses of insulin...
Harvard Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, who argued Claus von Bulow's successful appeal against a 1982 attempted murder conviction, said yesterday that he would continue to advise von Bulow's defense, but would not represent the case should a new trial be called...
...very long this whole process will be over, despite the consideration shown by the people knocking down the block of buildings opposite Widener. Perhaps in the interest of softening the blow of the impending conclusion of the T construction those workers have buried a bulldozer in the wreckage of Claus Gelotte Cameras...
Perhaps the court was saying that this is a ridiculous issue--that there is something wrong with a society that can't just relax about a creche surrounded by Santa Claus and reindeer. Why not find some good will in the symbols rather than governmental sponsorship of a religion? The majority opinion contends that "The display engenders a friendly community spirit of good will in keeping with the season." But good will at what price? As the dissent points out, Pawtucket may have a valid "secular reason" (good will and increased retail sales) for setting up the display...