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...have not only brought the objective and non-partisan substance of this vitally important chapter of recent history between the covers of one volume; they have also pioneered in the presentation of the effect specific legal action has on culture and therefore on society. The sharp contrast between the sober opinions of lawyers and judges, and the emotional cries of poets, novelists, and playwrights gives the reader a powerful three-dimensional picture of the event. This book is a major contribution to history, sociology...
Q.E.D. In St. Joseph, Mo., Mrs. Ernestine McCurry, 72, tried hard but failed to prove to police that she was sober, by 1) standing on her head, 2) doing a fast tap-dance routine, 3) climbing her cell bars, hand-over-hand, to the ceiling...
General Omar N. Bradley, the. Army's calm, sober and battle-weathered Chief of Staff, is worried less about the imminence of war than by America's jitters-that sometimes take the form of fatalistic apathy-about war.* Last week General Bradley told Chicago's Economic Club...
...least official and marked the removal of the protective scaffolding. But by the time she is 18, the modern New York debutante is already a familiar denizen of the Stork Club and the" tabloids, and is capable of deciding at a glance whether her escort is sober enough to drive...
...Sober Penetration. Soon after the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japanese physicists sent messages...