Word: erwin
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Toland is all too gullible about some of those witnesses. The book records without serious question things like the claim of Dr. Erwin Giesing that he tried to assassinate Hitler with an overdose of cocaine. Toland also relishes obscure detail to the point of tedium. He includes, for instance, a minute description of the shower facilities at the men's home in Vienna where a young and impoverished Hitler lived for three years just before World War I. Yet in larger matters Toland strays woefully from the record. He asserts that Hitler was "still a member in good standing...
...FIRST VIEW sounds like a logical point in favor of the proponents. If those who knows the most about the research believe it is fine, then why bother to listen to the uninformed objections? Still, there are a few knowledgeable dissenters, including Erwin Chagaff of Columbia and Caltech's Sinsheimer. And, an analogy to another situation--decisions involving the military--shows just how flawed this logic is. After all who knows more about how to wage war than the generals, and yet recent experience tells us that the generals, so itching to launch their projects, need to be regulated...
...issue was the case of Erwin Charles Simants, a mentally disturbed handyman who was charged with murdering six members of a family in the small town of Sutherland...
Last week lawyers for 35 news organizations and the state of Nebraska argued the relative weights of these opposing constitutional guarantees before the U.S. Supreme Court in a case growing out of the mass murder. Erwin Charles Simants, an unemployed farm hand and neighbor of the slain family, had been arrested for the killings within a day. When rumors began to spread that he had confessed, a local judge-at the request of both prosecution and defense attorneys-ordered the press not to print most of what was revealed at a public preliminary hearing. His reason: Simants' right...
Some legal experts believe that the press's desire for a total ban on gags is unreasonable. Stanford Constitutionalist Gerald Gunther says the claim that press freedom "is the one absolute right in the Constitution is absolute nonsense." Former Solicitor General Erwin Griswold, who advised Nebraska officials for their Supreme Court appearance, argues with some persuasion that the mounting need for gags is an inevitable "albatross the press carries around its neck because of its steadily increasing visual impact and immediacy." New York Times Attorney Floyd Abrams sought to rebut this contention before the Justices by citing the trials...