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The service academies claim they have gone about as far as they can to liberalize rules, and they see merit in retaining stern discipline. A West Point cadet was dismissed last month because he had claimed to have shined his shoes, then voluntarily admitted that he had lied. But cadets...
After his 21st birthday, Prince Eddy was commissioned in the tenth Hussars, his father's regiment. On one occasion, according to Philippe Jullian in his book Edward and the Edwardians, "the police discovered the Duke in a maison de rencontre of a particularly equivocal nature during a raid . . . The...
What Toffler calls "a fire storm of change" leaves in its wake "all sorts of curious social flora-from psychedelic churches and 'free universities' to science cities in the Arctic and wife-swap clubs in California." With Yeatsian gloom, he adds: "It breeds odd personalities, too: children who...
Warren Burger viewed the decision with extreme distaste. In dissent, he argued that the Constitution guarantees the right of counsel only during "criminal prosecutions," which for him do not include preliminary hearings. Implying that the court's previous decisions on the subject were shaky at best, Burger said: "I...
The good thing about Sam, (and a reason to become his wife forever and ever?) was that he denied her nothing. Every penny he earned out there in the circus was Merilee's if she wanted it. And also she liked his square ways. The tab collars and the cufflinks...