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...Harmless Error. The Warren court imposed that "fundamental" right on the states in 1965. But last week, in the case of Alex Evans, the Burger court limited the right somewhat. Evans was charged as one of the murderers of three policemen who were found handcuffed together with multiple gunshot wounds in the backs of their heads. At Evans' trial, a Georgia prisoner testified that he had heard one of the murder defendants say: "If it hadn't been for that dirty son of a bitch Alex Evans, we wouldn't be in this now." The trial judge...
...Innocents might have been harmless, though inane, war-time storytelling, except that Flood cannot resist editorializing. This is 1967, remember, and Flood's prescription for ending the war is to increase troop levels to two million American soldiers in Vietnam and thereby "pacify" the countryside. The only officer Flood meets who advocates American withdrawal is a Harvard graduate, as is Flood, so Flood takes a fraternal interest in showing the officer the flaws in his argument. Flood gets along better, however, with yet another Harvard officer, who explains that "the survival of our civilization is ultimately a function...
...sacred and inviolable" and so that Japan could regain the honor it had lost in its defeat. To that end, he created his private army, which numbered fewer than 100 young men, trained regularly, and wore expensive uniforms designed by Mishima himself. Most Japanese considered his army only a harmless and eccentric aberration of a talented...
...relieve the sterile monotony of nurses' uniforms, Fashion Designer Pierre Cardin recently unveiled three new creations at a London showing. Two of his designs-nunlike wimples with white maxidresses -were harmless affairs that might make ward nurses look functional if not fashionable. But the third-a pastel green body stocking with a white miniskirt-was obviously designed only for the most nubile nurses, and brought howls of amused indignation from hospital personnel. "The patients will probably collapse at the sight of a big nurse going wobble, wobble down the wards in one of those," said Patricia Ward...
...well spread disease, for example, by harboring harmful viruses or bacteria. On the other hand, organisms that thrive on the ingredients of smog and smoke could help in the fight against air pollution. Introduced into clouds, they would feed on the undesirable gases and particles, thus converting pollution into harmless cloud creatures...