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Three in a Bed. Surgeon Sulfridge, who often has to make do without electric power or running water, has three Vietnamese nurses (two women, one man) to assist him. He makes rounds with an interpreter and is lucky to have one-many project doctors have to elicit symptoms and give instructions by sign language. Like all newly arrived Americans, he was appalled at first by the filth and overcrowding in the wards, with two or three patients in a single dirty bed. Within 48 hours he was performing as many as seven major operations a day, was so immersed...
...only the unifying backdrop for Brooks' photographic compositions. The charmingly personal article on the Herbert Lee Collection also misses the boat. It will certainly interest all of Mr. Lee's friends, but because the emphasis is on the Lee rather than the paintings, the article will fail to elicit widespread interest...
...theory: that Danny's statement became ipso facto involuntary, and therefore inadmissible, as soon as the police turned away his lawyer. Kroll hoped to end "swearing contests" on the voluntariness of confessions by establishing an objective test: if police violate a specific rule, any confession they elicit is automatically excluded. Kroll's proposed rule was the Illinois statute guaranteeing access to a lawyer. But the court recoiled from enforcing it: such...
...enforcement, then there is something very wrong with that system." Despite this manifesto, the basic Escobedo rule was actually limited. "We hold only," said the opinion, "that when the process shifts from investigatory to accusatory -when its focus is on the accused and its purpose is to elicit a confession-our adversary system begins to operate, and, under the circumstances here, the accused must be permitted to consult his lawyer...
...Harvard's Peace Corps representative, Epps is involved in the promotion of Peace Corps projects and the selection of finalists for these programs. Always at the center of controversial issues, Epps recently negotiated with Shriver in an effort to elicit deferments for members of the Peace Corps. The Peace Corps is perhaps the best example of Epps' philosophy that all forms of social change must be promoted in order to help the Negro enter the twentieth century...