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...There is need, said the New Statesman and Nation, for "a thorough overhaul of the law governing contempt of court, with its arbitrary powers . . . and its medieval refusal of all right of appeal." But, as the Manchester Guardian pointed out, "there is no clear way out of the thicket"'of libel and contempt strictures. Britain's libel laws are an uncodified mass of legal decisions from which lawyers have never culled a satisfactory definition of defamation. They make Britain's press the most suit-harried in the world...
...Thickets. Negotiating an agreement acceptable to all hands required a plunge through an incredible thicket of quotas, subsidies, double pricing and doctored transport rates in every country. German industrialists, cockily confident of their ability to outcompete anyone in Europe, were enthusiastic at the opportunity to win an even bigger share of Western European markets, but unenthusiastic at the prospect of being obliged to give French-style benefits-including three-week vacations-to their hitherto unpampered employees. The labor benefits, in turn, have great appeal to German unions, thereby vitiating German Socialism's traditional opposition to European integration schemes...
...Kill. In the silence of the ravine, Squires had stopped. He heard Scott's shrieks, the grizzly's bull-like roar. Should he go back? Could he go back? His Winchester lay empty in the thicket above. No. He must get help. Running and stumbling for a mile, he climbed exhausted on his horse, raced two miles for camp. Ninety minutes later, Squires and three hunters found Ken Scott, ragged and mauled, his scalp partly torn from his head, but still alive. The bear was gone. The hunters carried Scott to a clearing, made plans to send...
...MEMOIRS OF A CROSS-EYED MAN, by James Wellard (246 pp.; St. Martin's Press: $3). Hulking British Schoolmaster Thomas Ashe was a flop as a ladies' man, and knew it. His nose was bulbous, his mustache like a thicket, and his eyes were crossed. But when he is crowding 49, they suddenly blaze with fresh fervor at the sight of an 18-year-old ballerina named Shala Delisle. He sees in her "the meaning and import of my life, my un-climbed peak, my terra incognita, my uncharted sea, my route to the Blessed Isles." Ignited with...
After LaMarca told his story, police and federal agents moved out to seek corroboration. Lined up an arm's length apart, 60 searchers began their slow walk through the thicket. After an hour FBI Agent J. Robert Boger, on his hands and knees in the underbrush, caught the glint of a safety pin. He groped again through a mass of brush and vines, found fragments of clothing, then found what Nassau County's medical examiner later identified as "the remains of an infant child...