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...reader may be hard put to feel much indignation. In the catalogue of Hitler's crimes, Evian-les-Bains amounted to little more than a misdemeanor. Hitler went on to destroy German Jewry, and Habe sensibly does not suggest that the successful sale and salvation of 40,000 Jews in 1938 would have prevented that wholesale slaughter. As Habe admits, Hitler probably never intended to find a market at Evian-les-Bains; his purpose may have been to show, by the free world's refusal to enter into such a negotiation, that anti-Semitism is merely a matter...
...child psychiatrist who sucks his thumb under stress. Beatty, in his first light comedy role, shows an unexpected flair for foolishness as Leslie's Greenwich Village neighbor, baby sitter and maker of stag films. "My movies are not even a felony," Warren insists. "They're only a misdemeanor...
Though FBI agents have witnessed scores of Southern civil rights violations, they have rarely used their power (Title 18, Section 3052) to make on-the-spot arrests for any federal felony or misdemeanor committed in their presence. Though jury discrimination in all American courts has been a federal crime since 1875 (Title 18, Section 243), the Justice Department has prosecuted no one for the practice in this century. When an all-white jury recent ly acquitted Tom Coleman for killing a civil rights worker in Hayneville, Ala., Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach could only swallow hard and say: "This...
...nudist colony. In the charter's words, the coeducational camp was for the sole purpose of "social, sun, air and water therapy . . . without the confinement of clothing." But before the project could take off, local residents persuaded the Tennessee legislature to pass a law making nudism a misdemeanor...
Mother and son appealed on the grounds that every citizen has a common-law right to resist false arrest. A policeman, they argued, may make an arrest for a misdemeanor only if he has a warrant or if the offense is committed in his presence. In this case, the cops had neither excuse. And New Jersey's second highest court has just reversed the Koonces' convictions. In so doing, though, it barred all further resistance to false arrest in New Jersey. Historically, the court noted, the right arose in a day when arrest was well worth fighting...