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Criminal Government. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit could not have disagreed more strongly. Speaking for that unanimous court, Judge Simon Sobeloff (former U.S. Solicitor General) pointed out that the Baltimore police "repentance" occurred well after it became "manifest" that the Veneys had skipped town. (The FBI eventually nabbed them in New York.) Unlike Judge Thomsen, Sobeloff was unmoved by the cops' self-policing order. "The determination of what constitutes probable cause," he said, "is still left to the policeman...
...Moser of the Army Medical Corps told a Palo Alto, Calif., symposium on "Diseases of Medical Progress": "We are inclined to forget that the drug is also in contact with other tissues. Effects in those areas are not immediately evident: subtle influences may be at work and may become manifest only later." Such long-range effects, Dr. Moser warned, may never be traced to the drug that caused them. "This is a shadow world of pathophysiology, where relation of cause to effect is at best diffi cult to assess...
...show it. Her monologues and John Hoffman's as Dr. Thomas contain all the best moments in the play. As Martin and Lisa, David Gordon and Maeve Kinkead manage to be funny without sacrificing character and vice versa, although neither can quite transcend a scene in which they manifest their romantic bliss into song...
More than any other great nation in history, the U.S. has remained deeply mistrustful of its might and reluctant to invoke it. For most Americans, Manifest Destiny died when the 20th cen- tury was born, and two world wars have only thrust it deeper in its grave. Nonetheless, the junior Senator from Arkansas last week professed to see the U.S. commitment to Viet Nam as a portent of the overweening conviction of righteousness that has typified most major powers in decline...
...that, added Frankfurter, the confession system has "manifest evils." One is "the threat that a police system which has grown to rely too heavily on interrogation will not pursue or learn other crime-detection methods, and the consequent danger that police will feel themselves under pressure to secure confessions." Only a short step away is the "third degree," which makes a mockery of "natural" confessions and undermines the integrity of the trial itself...