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...percent of the people in this country don't know that David Ben-Gurion is a Zen Buddhist!" I identified myself with the majority. "Well all you got to do is your homework, to find out," he said. "Look. The Bible and science simply do not contradict one another. Some people say they do, but they just don't know their science...
Edward Bennett Williams does not look like a criminal lawyer. He has no slick black suits, waving arms, polished mannerism, pudgy cheeks or bouncy movements about him. His sincerity, earnestness, and conservative attire completely contradict the flamboyance associated with the old-fashioned trial lawyer...
Though still on the books, guest statutes "contradict the spirit of the times." In Clark v. Clark, at least, New Hampshire holds that a driver's liability to his passengers shall be "determined by the local law of their common domicile, if at least this is the state from which they departed on their trip and that to which they intended to return." Which means that Mrs. Clark may now sue Mr. Clark under New Hampshire...
...community is," that all obscenity cases shall be tried by jury "unless both parties waive a jury," and that "the court shall have no power to dismiss an obscenity proceeding if reasonable men could differ as to whether the material is obscene." All of which seems to contradict the Supreme Court's current doctrine that obscenity cases involve not only questions of fact for a jury but also constitutional issues that can be decided only by trial judges, appellate courts and the nation's highest tribunal itself...
...what about the farmer? Secretary Freeman insists that the farmer is responsible for only a small part of the rising price of food. Figures from his own department contradict him. They show that since 1964, farmers have actually raised their cut of the housewife's grocery dollar from 37? to 40?; they also show that average farm-family net income has gone from $3,642 to $4,785 in the past two years...