Word: usual
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Wheat & Chaff. But raw FBI reports, in the words of Director J. Edgar Hoover, may "allege crimes of a most despicable type, and the truth or falsity of these charges may not emerge until several reports are studied, further investigation made and the wheat separated from the chaff." The usual court practice has therefore been for the trial judge to screen the reports as to their relevance and competence before turning them over to the defense for use in crossexamination. The judge-as-screener procedure was what the Jencks defense asked at the trial. Government attorneys were willing...
...usual, the Americans will have the edge in the field events and the hurdles, with the English holding sway in the distances. Oxonian Derek Johnson, runner-up to Tom Courtney in the Olympic 800 meters, appears the standout on the O-C squad. His times in the 440, 880, and mile are all impressively under the bests of the Americans. In the 880, he will encounter Yale's John Slowik and Cairns, while in the 440 he will meet Anderson, and Crimson captain Dick Wharton...
...usual manner, coach Harvey Love has shaken hs lineup quite a bit in attempting to find a winning combination to cope with a Yale boat which boasts five members of last years Olympic champion squad. Yale will be seeking its fourth straight win over the Crimson...
...time postwar Europe began to marvel at him, he was no longer well enough to travel. Although he was short and frail, he had the massively muscled shoulders of a boxer and steel-fingered hands. "Macaroni fingers!" he said contemptuously when sometimes he failed to play with his usual precision. A perfectionist, he preferred not to play Beethoven because he felt he was not yet worthy of the music. Along with the big technique and virile style, Lipatti had a remarkable ability, as his teacher Nadia Boulanger noted, to "see better and hear more than we do." In the present...
...their latest appearance with more than 150 other works of art in Greek Sculpture, text by Reinhard Lullies, photographs by Max Hirmer (Abrams; $12.50), a handsome book that presents the entire range of Greek sculpture, from its origins to its final decadence, through Greek originals exclusively, instead of the usual mixture with spiritless Roman copies. In form, these figures are exactly what the ancient Greeks saw. But the note originally struck is muted: the brilliant colors with which the Greeks painted their statues have rubbed off the marble, and the burnished-gold hue of the bronzes has tarnished. Nonetheless, like...