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...Mallory v. U.S. (1957) required there be prompt arraignment of a criminal suspect...
...claiming conscientious-objector status usually has a particularly hard time. Relatively few boards seem to know or care that the Supreme Court significantly broadened the qualifications three years ago. Now a man need only possess beliefs that prompt his objection to all wars and that "occupy the same place in his life as the belief in a traditional deity." But even if he knows how to raise that argument legally, home-town board members may well pay no attention because they think that such a test is much too easy...
...however, had to make certain concessions last month to visiting Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin. He promised, for one thing, to demonstrate his loyalty to the Warsaw Pact by permitting "staff exercises" in Czechoslovakia of troops from the Soviet bloc. The soldiers, most of them from the signal corps, were prompt to arrive. At week's end, the first of about 3,000 Soviet forces crossed the Russian border into eastern Slovakia even as the Central Committee was in session. Many Czechoslovaks were alarmed, seeing their coming as an unsubtle attempt to influence the committee while it was debating...
Mighty Oval. The verdict from the 42,080 opening-day crowd was prompt and affirmative. "It still has its old familiar charm," declared George D. Widener, 79, who has raced his colors at Belmont since 1913. "Beautiful," sighed Mrs. Winston ("Ceezee") Guest. "Bigger and better than ever," said Jockey Club Chairman Ogden Phipps...
Nonetheless, the police forces of Cleveland, Kansas City, Mo., Madison, Wis., Los Angeles and San Francisco last week stopped using the spray. Pittsburgh Director of Public Safety David Craig took the opposite view. In most cities, newspaper reports of the Surgeon General's letter omitted the point that prompt treatment would forestall permanent damage. To Craig, that fact meant that Mace, properly used, was now clearly the safest weapon in his arsenal and "the first feasible nonlethal hand weapon since the caveman invented the wooden club...