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...suspended the use of radar and electronic timers as well as airplanes. Under current Florida law, said Faircloth, the information provided by all these gadgets is hearsay evidence and is therefore inadmissible. To restore electronic enforcement, Faircloth urged the state legislature to legalize such information by classifying it as prima-facie evidence. If the legislature agrees, Florida courts will be able to accept the evidence as conclusive whenever the defendant fails to rebut...
...prima-facie technique has been adopted by legislatures or courts in many of the 45 states where police now use radar. Joining four other states...
...when it came to presentation, her stage technique all but obliterated the competition. The other voice contestants, especially the girls from Eastern Europe, exhibited little personality, stood like glaciers when they sang; Marsh, dressed in a flowing yellow chiffon gown, displayed the poise and personality of an established prima donna. In the finals, her arias from Otello, Susannah and Eugene Onegin (sung in Russian) convinced the jury that the voice inside the girl was as beautiful as the girl inside the dress...
...Metropolitan Opera House is destined for the wrecker's ball in May-that is, if it lasts that long. Last week the visiting Bolshoi Ballet practically tore down the house all by itself. Most of the acclaim was lavished on the Bolshoi's wing-footed Prima Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya. On opening night she danced the dual role of Odette-Odile in Swan Lake, and on the next night performed in the U.S. première of Petipa's Don Quixote-altogether a feat that is roughly comparable to Sandy Koufax pitching both ends of a doubleheader...
...copy he is running close to the black. He pares expenses by paying minimal fees to contributors and employing a 15-year-old photographer. "If I ask him for a sharp picture," says Price, "he gives me a sharp picture, without any of this prima-donna or artistic jazz...