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...Jack is in a heap of trouble. He awakens one sparkling Southwestern morning to discover that his wife has been bludgeoned to death in bed, and he has only the flimsiest recollection of how it happened. Without a trial, he is summarily convicted by small-town mores and yellow journalism. But there is a knight in Harvard armor waiting on the prairie. Folks round those parts don't much cotton to the young lawyer because he's named Tony Petrocelli, and he defends the town drunk and talks back to officers of the law. But maybe. Dr. Jack...
...anything like the body of Supreme Court case law that-at least in theory-restricts police in the U.S. Coon and Harris, in a paperback entitled The Release Report on Drug Offenders and the Law, claim that British bobbies at times break into homes without warrants and on the flimsiest evidence, often entering at night to heighten "the shock effect." Release is helping to discourage such arbitrary police behavior. "My impression is that the police are being much more careful with search and seizure," says Father Kenneth Leach, an Anglican curate in London's Soho district. "Release is reaching...
...long ago, the woman with nothing to wear had a problem. Today, nothing is practically all she needs. With the new nude look in fashions, the flimsiest pretext of a dress will do-but only on a girl with a figure worth seeing through to and with nerve enough to let the world see through to it. If she has the right shape and attitude, she can get away with anything from a bra and gypsy waistcoat to a blouse woven wholly out of cobwebs. Guardians of morality may frown in disfavor, girl friends may shriek in outrage and envy...
From the international point of view, perhaps the chief fact about the invasion is that, far from strengthening Soviet-style Communism, Moscow has further crippled it. Acting on the flimsiest and most cynical of pretexts, Warsaw Pact troops throttled the infant independence of a state that had reiterated its fidelity to Moscow and Communism. To retain its grip on Eastern Europe?perhaps only for a few years more?the Soviet Union had sacrificed much of its influence among Communist parties elsewhere. Not since the Hitler-Stalin pact of 1939 had the Kremlin acted so palpably from fear and weakness. Under...
...that had been anticipated this year. By last week, U.S. buying had driven copper prices on the London Metal Exchange up from 44½? a Ib. to 50⅛? a Ib. Most producers are surprised that the price has stayed that low; London copper prices normally gyrate on the flimsiest sort of news and early in 1966 they briefly hit a peak of 98¾? a Ib. In the U.S., where the prestrike price of copper from domestic mines was only 38? a Ib., users are shifting to metal from commercial channels at prices close to those in London. Citing...