Word: reconstruct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nouveau Candide before beginning his book. Treblinka takes its title from the death camp 50 miles northeast of Warsaw, where some 700,000 Jews were gassed, shot, hanged or beaten to death. Steiner interviewed 15 of the 40 survivors of Treblinka now living in Israel, used fictional techniques to reconstruct the life and sudden death of the in- mates. The book's high point is the revolt, on Aug. 2, 1943, of the Jewish Sonderkommando, the laborers detailed to wrench gold teeth from corpses and bury the dead. With smuggled arms, the Jews killed 20 of their captors. Some...
...Benjamin Cardozo's words: "Justice, though due the accused, is due the accuser also." Don't abandon "totality of circumstances" in judging whether confessions are free or coerced. Don't assume that "focus" is workable as an objective test. Don't expect judges to reconstruct just when the focus point was reached or whether the suspect really waived his rights when he talked. Don't add such new confusion that ultimately the only solution will be a truly automatic test: no interrogation without a lawyer...
Some 20 students fired off a telegram to President Pusey Tuesday urging him to "RECONSTRUCT CLOCK TOWER OF MEMORIAL HALL." To further their cause William H. Ives '67 and Robert L. Justice '66, are thinking of leading the group in a march on Memorial Hall in the near future...
...human fossils have been un earthed so far, nor does De Lumley think that any will be found. The scarcity of human fossils predating Neanderthal man is, in fact, one of the great archaeological blanks, making it difficult to reconstruct human life of hundreds of thousands of years ago. But the age of the dwelling has been conclusively dated from surrounding geological formations, which have been carefully studied over the past century. And corroborating evidence comes from paleontological finds, such as the presence of the Helix pareti snails, which are known to have disappeared during the Second (Mindel-Riss) Interglacial...
...promised to try to correct the imbalance of trade between the two countries (now vastly in Mexico's favor) and to improve roads and telephone connections with Guatemala, while a cultural-exchange program will reconstruct Mayan sites along the border...