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...Japan you can do anything if you are drunk. Perhaps we should advertise Japan abroad not as the land of Mt. Fuji and geishas but as a paradise for alcoholics." About twelve Japanese a year win acquittal on murder charges by proving they were drunk or drugged (a plea that is no defense at all in U.S. courts). Announced the Justice Ministry: "Revision of Article 39 is being considered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Status of Mind | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

Steyskal has now been certified competent to stand trial, Mahoney said and must now enter a plea of guilty or not guilty this morning before Federal District Judge William T. McCarthy...

Author: By Richard T. Cooper, | Title: Ex-Student Faces Judge For Threat to Kill Pusey | 8/8/1957 | See Source »

...Sharp observers noted that in his plea for the growth of an organic law of nations, Brownell did not once mention the United Nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAW: Call to Greatness | 8/5/1957 | See Source »

...Turned down the plea of Old Guard Republican Samuel Wilder King, 70, for renomination, instead chose young (38) Honolulu Ikeman, Lawyer William Francis Quinn, as twelfth territorial governor of Hawaii...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Chair for George | 8/5/1957 | See Source »

...work begins when Mrs. Campbell was at the peak of her career and Shaw a merely notorious pamphleteer. Act I contains the story of Shaw's plea to Mrs. Campbell to take the role of Liza in Pygmalion, her frightful automobile accident (which she thought had ended her career), and the final triumph of the opening night. In this act, Kilty turned his play into a play about a play and slipped in and out of actual rehearsals of scenes from Pygmalion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Shaw Premiere | 8/1/1957 | See Source »

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