Word: simon
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Criminal Government. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit could not have disagreed more strongly. Speaking for that unanimous court, Judge Simon Sobeloff (former U.S. Solicitor General) pointed out that the Baltimore police "repentance" occurred well after it became "manifest" that the Veneys had skipped town. (The FBI eventually nabbed them in New York.) Unlike Judge Thomsen, Sobeloff was unmoved by the cops' self-policing order. "The determination of what constitutes probable cause," he said, "is still left to the policeman...
Praise for Heyns's first-year performance comes from regents, faculty and students alike. Regent Norton Simon (TIME cover, June 4, 1965) says that Heyns has "achieved excellent balance between the rights of the students and the maintenance of the university traditions." Cal President Clark Kerr cites his "keen intelligence, great good sense, and calm but effective style." Former Student President Jerry Goldstein calls him "an absolutely fantastic individual, with warmth and humor...
SWEET CHARITY. As a dance-hall dolly whose heart is leaden but whose feet are mercury, Gwen Verdon is effusive. The slickness of Bob Fosse's choreography is suffusive. What there is of Neil Simon's book is elusive...
...CLEMENS AND MARK TWAIN by Justin Kaplan. 424 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...hypocrisy of a century in which aggrandizement all too often passed under the name of progress. The distinctive virtue of Justin Kaplan's book is that even while failing to resolve all controversy about Twain, it does a commendable job of explaining why the controversy exists. A Simon & Schuster editor who resigned six years ago to write this first book, Author Kaplan, 41, approached his assignment with an impartiality that few other Twain biographers have mustered for the task...