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Federal Government is funneling a record $268 million to local lawmen this year?four times last year's outlay. More controversially, Congress and state legislatures are considering measures that would allow police to expand wiretapping and enter suspicious dwellings without knocking. In most areas, public opinion has seldom been so pro-cop. A recent Gallup poll revealed that a majority of Americans view crime control as their No. 1 priority, and even longtime dissenters are beginning to have second thoughts. Though many radicals still think of police as "pigs"?with some justification in a number of cities ?liberals...
...trial from British common law, they also intended to preserve the common law's tradition of twelve. But that tradition is a mere "historical accident." White wrote. Since the days of the Franks and Normans, juries have ranged in number from 66 to four, and legal thinkers have seldom found much justification for the magic dozen...
...recent cases rather than the Constitution to bootstrap ourselves into a result. By placing a premium on 'recent cases' rather than the language of the Constitution, the court makes it dangerously simple for future courts to operate as a 'continuing constitutional convention.' " SEARCHES. Police can seldom search and seize private property without a warrant. One longstanding exception permits searches "incident to" an arrest. Last week the court made clear another exception: when police have reason to search an automobile. Evidence in cars is highly perishable, the court said, because a car can rapidly be driven away...
...black is beautiful" idea, conceived to instill a new sense of racial pride in Negroes, has had a practical consequence undreamed by its authors. Black women, now more determined than ever to project an image of loveliness, are turning in increasing numbers to a beauty aid that they seldom used in the past: cosmetics. Responding eagerly to the demand, at least five firms have begun producing cosmetics designed specifically for black skin-the field has already grown into a multimillion-dollar business...
...tween long and short sleep ers. The shorts tended to be conformist and emo tionally stable: "a successful and relatively healthy bunch with very little overt psy-chopathology," says Hart mann. "Their entire life style involved keeping busy and avoiding psychological problems rather than facing them." They also awakened seldom during the night and arose in the morning refreshed and ready...