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...federal rules. They will hardly revolutionize U.S. courtrooms; what they will do is permit a wider range of evidence. The biggest change is a "broader discretion to admit hearsay," says Stanford Law Professor John Kaplan. Hearsay-generally any information to which a witness cannot testify of his own firsthand knowledge-has traditionally been forbidden except in certain specified circumstances (for example, statements made by a person against his own interest). Now a judge may admit any hearsay having "circumstantial guarantees of trustworthiness...
Correspondent James Willwerth got a firsthand taste of that lifestyle while accompanying Bach in the Widgeon on a barnstorming-style promotional tour from Akron to Los Angeles. Between daytime autographing sessions at bookstores and nighttime layovers at small county airports, Willwerth managed to get in a series of airborne interviews. "At times he had so much to say," recalls Willwerth, "that it was hard to keep him on one subject. We were constantly swapping anecdotes and laughing, and then suddenly I would have to reach for my notebook to keep the conversation from going to waste...
Puharich told the conference that his research team had studied firsthand 1,000 of Arigó's cases without learning how the healer made his diagnoses or effected his cures. "But," said Puharich, "our nice modern equipment proved that genuine healing took place under bizarre conditions and unbelievable circumstances. Clearly we have a lot of research ahead...
...woman claimed to have shared a perverse relationship with Hitler: his niece, Geli Raubal. Their liaison caused much gossip and ended in Geli's mysterious death-perhaps by her own hand, perhaps by Hitler's. At least one other woman admitted to firsthand experience of Hitler's masochism, though in a less extreme form. The actress Rene Mueller told her director that on an evening when she had expected to have intercourse with Hitler, he instead threw himself on the floor, begged her to kick him and became excited when she finally complied. Rene later killed herself...
...that purported to show several recent bomb craters in dikes near Nam Sach, 40 miles southeast of Hanoi, and further damage near the provincial capital of Nam Dinh. Hardly a dispassionate witness, she said: "I believe in my heart, profoundly, that the dikes are being bombed on purpose." From firsthand observation and from pictures shown her by the North Vietnamese, she concluded: "Not only the dikes are being bombed, but hydraulic systems, sluice gates, pumping stations and dams as well. The worst damage is done by bombs that fall on both sides of the dikes, causing deep fissures that weaken...