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...Queen Elizabeth suddenly commuted the death sentence of two Rhodesian blacks convicted of set ting houses afire and awaiting execution in a Salisbury prison. The hope was that the voice of the Queen would stir the fire of revolt in Smith's prison authorities, but that hope seemed faint at best. Shrugging off an official warning that executing the two "loyal subjects of the Queen" would be the same thing as murder, Smith made the obvious reply. Wilson, he charged, was trying to "embroil Her Majesty in politics," something that Prime Ministers do at a risk to themselves...
...reacted to the naive beliefs in REASON and TRUTH of his opponents on the Court, and went to the other extreme in denying any corrective powers to the Court. Levinson argues that the Court might bring some reason to bear in bolstering democratic values against the attack of a faint-hearted public, preserving the "rule of law," and protecting long-range values when other branches are more concerned with immediate expediencies...
Happily joining the debate last week, another scientist at the A.A.A.S. meeting declared that the Mariner pictures do suggest the possibility of Martian life. New Mexico State University Astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered Pluto in 1930, said that the faint markings on seven of Mariner's 22 photographs coincide with the controversial and elusive "canals" and "oases" that he and others have mapped in telescopic observations of Mars...
...mating tarantulas. Instead Uncle Walt opts for a conventional fur-flying climax, and by fadeout time the heroic Siamese has somehow sired a litter of adorable kittens. Such bounties adequately fill a kid's stocking, but parents not previously afflicted with cat allergy may well feel the first faint sniffle...
...went past it and lightened again and darkened and lightened. She had on a short black skirt and a blouse open between her breasts. Her toenails were scarlet. There was blood on the doves, bright-red blood and a gentle look of surprise in their round eyes. Willie felt faint. His hand grasped the knife in his jeans. Willie split the trouts' bellies with his knife, washed them in the cold water of the brook, and wiped the blood off his knife with a skunk-cabbage leaf. She had red hair and her blouse was open between her breasts...