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...TIME regrets that, due to a production error, an entire quote from Mr. Gerdes was dropped. He said: "There has got to be some sympathetic attitude by the public toward the problems that we are facing, if it wants to have enough power to keep the air conditioning going...
...France, the Thermidorian period ended with the establishment of the five-man Directory late in 1795, after the suppression of a public revolt by a young Corsican officer named Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon himself seized power in a 1799 coup d'etat...
...could find that Judge Boyle's ground rules are legally sound. Traditionally in Massachusetts, the very loosely formulated procedures of an inquest are left to the presiding judge, who may or may not exclude the public and press. Precedents on inquests in the state are vague. Only two inquests have been held on Martha's Vineyard in the past 40 years. One, in 1932, concluded that a man named Valdimer Victor Messer evidently sat on a keg of dynamite wired to a battery and dematerialized himself...
Some legal experts believe the most likely outcome is that the inquest will be canceled-leaving Dinis the option of calling a grand jury-or that it will be held in secret to protect the rights of Kennedy and the other witnesses. In either case, the public, which is presumably a court to which every politician must appeal, would be denied an open and formal explanation. Kennedy might have gone ahead with the Edgartown inquest, risking rumors on the record in order to account for his conduct clearly once and for all. Now he has for a time formalized...
...family's seignorial attitude toward the people in its domain is evidence enough of its political power. "These are my folks around here," says Mrs. Howell. "They need help." The people of Breathitt repaid such sentiments last month by flocking to Mrs. Howell's side at a public hearing held by OEO to investigate Nunn's charges against her. Howell supporters turned out in such force that Lynn Frazer, the state economic-opportunity director, walked out, claiming anti-Howell witnesses were being intimidated...