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...vote of 5 to 2, the high state court rejected all her claims. Chief Judge Charles Desmond, no Miranda admirer, nonetheless hotly dissented on the ground that every other direct appeal (excluding certain property-rights cases) in the history of New York's top court, had always been "decided according to the law as we found it on the day of decision." "New York," he said, "should make Miranda retroactive in accordance with its own traditions...
...fulltime Head Start program is expected to need 12,000 teachers. Another drain is the draft. Texas education officials contend that their teacher shortage just matches the number hired by federal programs. Indianapolis shifted 49 faculty members into anti-poverty jobs-and faced 46 vacancies when school opened. John Desmond, president of the Chicago Teachers Union, argues that "it is asinine to assign teachers to special programs while regular classrooms are unfilled...
...APES by Ramona and Desmond Morris. 271 pages. McGraw-Hill...
...tree of life, but neither has found the neighborhood entirely respectable. For man, that hairy presence stands just too close for comfort; outside the chimp cage at the zoo, the human observer begins to wonder uneasily who is amusing whom. In this illustrated primer of primate lore by Desmond Morris, curator of mammals at the London Zoo, and his wife Ramona, the sympathy of the authors is placed solidly behind the bars...
...hurries home to find the young man she loves engaged to another girl, winds up on Christmas morning bravely smiling through tears. Her tears fall in such torrents, in fact, that viewers may wonder why the camera was not equipped with windshield wipers. They may also wonder how Director Desmond Davis and Novelist-Scriptwriter O'Brien, who once collaborated on a shrewd, satirical movie about Ireland (The Girl with Green Eyes), could have failed to add a leaven of Gaelic laughter to this treacle...