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Writing to Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, Chief Judge David Bazelon of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington sharply questioned the effect on the "poor Negro citizen" of such draft proposals as 20-minute street detention, dragnet arrests to sift suspects, station-house questioning up to 24 hours after arrest, and lack of free counsel for indigents. Protested Bazelon: "I cannot understand why the crimes of the poor are so much more damaging to society as to warrant the current hue and cry-reflected in the proposed code -for enlarging police powers, which primarily are directed against those crimes...
...Stade observed the irony of the whole affair: "Right now we're in the middle of admissions for 1969. We have 6500 people of whom 6000 are absolutely qualified. We'll sift through the applications and try to pick the 1200 most promising and exciting people. And yet, a year hence, the Masters will took at some of these fellows and say 'What an uninteresting and dull group...
...night now," a California private detective admitted last week. "The way they use these carbons only once now, it's a cinch." Not all of the espionage work is underhand, of course: many companies regularly instruct salesmen and other fieldworkers to report back any news and gossip, also sift trade journals, advertisements and Government reports for additional wisps of information...
...increased counseling of students has also served to sift off some applicants, Crooks pointed...
Before coming to any decision, he said, HSA managers will sift through the records of complaints to see "what kind of service will satisfy most of them." As a preliminary move, "we're trying to straighten out our records so we can sift through them," he said...