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...friend and former law partner of Herbert Kalmbach, I have visited him at the correctional facility at Lompoc. It is no country club. Mr. Kalmbach may have served his entire sentence by the time sober study dictates immunity for all other defendants. This would be not only an unequal application of justice but a travesty. May I suggest immediate parole of all imprisoned Watergate-related individuals until the issue of Mr. Nixon's prosecution is settled...
Greek friends attribute Caramanlis' cool personality to the fact that he is not really a man of the Mediterranean but of sober northern Greece, where temperaments are less ebullient. The son of a Macedonian schoolteacher who died when Constantine was 18, he went to work to support the family, selling insurance to pay his way through law school in Athens. "Life was rough for us," he later recalled. "I was determined to succeed in my studies to show my gratitude to my family, and to be able to defend people, peasants and shepherds, who were even more unfortunate than...
...reader is meant to see the lifted eye brow and to smile. Then he is meant to see the sober truth of the statement be hind its mockery. Then the mockery be hind that sobriety and so on. What lies deeper, the mockery or the truth? It is a rare comic writer who can raise the question, and Kundera...
...culling the Journal of Irreproducible Results and the Journal of Jocular Physics as well as more sober publications, R.L. Weber, an associate professor of physics at Penn State, has turned up more than 100 examples of the scientific mind at play. Against considerable odds, the result is a collection of short pieces that are funny and reassuring. If the future cloners and behavioral conditioners of society have a sense of humor, all may yet be well...
Black Binders. The sober spirit of the hearings was embodied in two thick black binders placed on each of the 38 committee members' desks. One was an annotated index of the documentary or taped evidence accumulated by the committee staff in the six months that it has probed 41 allegations of wrongdoing-including obstruction of justice and complicity in the Watergate cover-up?by Nixon. The other binder held the material that Majority Counsel John Dear's staff presented to the committee during its first three-hour session. It amounted to a recitation of the events that...