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...brave and ec centric act of self-fulfilling prophecy. Precisely at noon on Sunday, 42-year-old Gonzalo Arias hung a brace of white posters over his shoulders and began to stroll down thronged Calle de la Princesa. The message, in black letters fore and aft, was simple: "In the Name of the Spanish People, I respectfully ask that free elections be held for the head of state." It was not the sort of thing that happens every Sunday afternoon in Spain, and heads spun as Arias paraded past crowded cafe tables. The consensus was that the man with...
...order," Congress passed an Omnibus Crime Control Act that contains a direct attack on Supreme Court doctrine. Never mind Miranda's strict rules in federal prosecutions, says one section of the law; now judges need only consider "all the circumstances" in which a confession was obtained be fore they rule on whether it was voluntary. That was, in effect, the formula before Miranda. When the first test case reaches the Supreme Court, the justices are likely to find the new law as unacceptable as Miranda's confession...
...long fretted over the possibility of antitrust action, even though it has taken over no domestic passenger-car firm for 50 years. Sensitive to the Administration's inflation worries, G.M. Chairman James Roche recently played the part of a diplomat in meeting with White House economists be fore announcing price increases (aver aging only 1.6%) on his 1969 models...
...licensed real estate agent in Los Angeles 15 years ago, Shirley Verrett was pretty good at selling houses. Today, she is even better at selling them out. Mezzo-Soprano Verrett last week made her Metropolitan Opera debut as the heroine in Bizet's Carmen. Be fore the night was out, she had men smiling to themselves and women wondering how a flower might look in their teeth...
Nebraska-born Baldrige worked his way up from pouring iron to the presi dency of Connecticut's Eastern Co. be fore being tapped for the Scovill...