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Queen Victoria would have none of it. Distressed by a spate of assassination attempts (three on herself and one on her prince consort, Albert), she asked the House of Lords to review the case, said Kaufman. "With the Queen's hot breath on him," the presiding judge in M'Naghten's case reversed himself and applied the "right-wrong" standard...
Mechanical Sin. The least that this spate of spies signifies, it would seem, is that ventures into venery, sadism and furious action have set an eyebrow-raising new standard for family entertainment. Kids adore the lethal, shiny toy collection. Dads happily ogle a prepotent heman, king of a computerized wonderland in which every foe can be swiftly vanquished, every voluptuous siren bedded. And women seem quite susceptible to the fantasy of being vicariously mauled by a master of the art, perhaps after flooring him with a karate wrist chop. Slapdash, comic-strip plots, more violent than suspenseful, are made into...
Some U.S. officials in Saigon fear that Ky's flair, and above all his rapport with Americans, may well prove his undoing. It was probably no accident that yet another spate of coup rumors began to float through Saigon behind the news of Ky's impressive confrontation with Johnson in Hawaii. "We killed Khanh that way," ruminates one U.S. old hand in Saigon, recollecting how the U.S. Mission backed Khanh even when it was clear that the Young Turks had lost faith in his leadership. "And we are in real danger," he adds, "of killing Ky the same...
...likelihood of our being surprised this year by an unusually large spate of applications is small," Glimp said...
Hurdle Ahead. Not the least of the losers in the show of intransigence are the newspaper readers of the city. When all the other members of the Publishers Association shut down in sympathy with the Times, New York was left with only the afternoon Post and a spate of third-rate, strike-born tabloids, all inconsequential. Nor do the local radio and TV stations, which have hired some 40 striking Guildsmen, seem equal to taking up the slack...