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...those who grew up in El Monte, the present scene is all a bit unreal. Police Chief Orval Davis, a member of the force since 1938, remembers that there were only 3,600 residents and six policemen in El Monte when he was a rookie. (There are 77 cops today.) "Those are the people I identify with," he says. "Those are the people I know. We've grown so fast, I hardly know any of the new ones." Ray ("Tex") Rickerd, an oldtimer who owns the weekly Mid Valley News, does not think much of the newcomers...
...political content and intention of the students' acts were dismissed as "irrelevant." The context in which the CRR judged was not that of a modern university in its relations to the real world but rather of an idealized "academic community" founded upon archaic illusions and thus placed in unreal isolation...
...court upheld the trial judge's ruling. The nature of the statement, wrote Justice Potter Stewart, was such that it carried indications of "reliability" and the possibility of its being shaken on cross-examination was "wholly unreal." Moreover, Stewart said that the testimony "was of peripheral significance at most," since 20 witnesses testified and were available for cross-examination-including another co-conspirator who described in detail the crime and Evans' part in it. Three justices agreed with Stewart; two of them, Justice Harry Blackmun and Chief Justice Warren Burger, went on to argue that even...
...left America looking for art and excitement, while the new expatriates are avoiding the pressures and problems of American life today (see ESSAY, next page). In an unconscious echo of James, one of them-Reginald Rose, a television playwright now living in London-calls the U.S. "uncomfortable, unloving and unreal...
Whatever the final toll, the East Pakistan catastrophe has already reached such dimensions as to make it seem unreal. Up close, it is real enough. Cabled TIME's Ghulam Malik after a tour of Manpura Island: "I could not walk 200 yards without passing heaps of bloated bodies. For miles, animal carcasses littered the landscape. The stench was appalling, the sight of parents hovering over their dead children staggering. My legs shook...