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What to Buy in Europe One tourist pleasure many Americans overlook is buying phonograph records in Europe. The selection is enormous; prices, while higher, are not prohibitive, and there is something to satisfy just about every taste. In the middle ground between classical music and rock 'n' roll, both of which abound in European record stores, are Portuguese fados, Neapolitan tenors, Scots pipers, Spanish flamencos, German beer songs, French chanteuses, Welsh miners, nightclub and music-hall performers, tin ny little village bands and Tyrolean yodelers. There are even some familiar U.S. singers (and songs) in unfamiliar languages...
...here. Mr. Hamilton should be warned that he may not be welcomed exclusively by souls like us, imbued with the spirit of human kindness. In the event of a hegira from his high-ceilinged mansion to this land of canvas canopies, we would ask him in his magnanimity to overlook the selfish taunts of privates earning $83.30 base pay per month with wife and children back in the States. I trust he'll excuse these impetuous youths for not understanding modern patriotism. Our best to Mr. Namath also...
...hope the jury is a group of Godfearing people who will be able to overlook the commandment "Thou shalt not kill" and use, as a basis for their verdict, "An eye for an eye," and then punish these creatures accordingly. May I be forgiven for my evil thoughts of wanting a murder...
...Washington's U.S. Attorney David G. Bress, who has written a short rebuttal to Freedman's law-review article, the professor's opinions totally overlook the command of Canon 5, requiring a defense lawyer to use "all fair and honorable means." To Bress, "This can only mean defending without the use of known perjury." In a letter to the Washington grievance committee, on the other hand, University of Pennsylvania Law Professor Anthony Amsterdam defended Freedman's original lecture as "a probing and responsible attempt to answer difficult and intensely practical problems created by our adversary system...
...truth? Quite often, the defendant later recants, forcing courts to determine the voluntariness of his confession. The issue becomes a "swearing contest" between the scruffy confessor and three or four detectives who swear they never coerced him. Understandably, most judges and juries prefer to believe policemen; indeed, judges overlook trickery in the squeal room that would shock them in the courtroom...