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Angrily, Sirhan insisted that the police had had no search warrant and had stolen the books when they were given permission by his brother Adel to look through Sirhan's bedroom. Two of the notebooks were found on his bureau, the third at the foot of Sirhan's bed. Adamantly refusing to accept his plea, Walker warned Sirhan's lawyers that he could order him held to his chair by restraining straps and gagged with a special face mask if he did not keep silent...
...turning the Office of Economic Opportunity into a kind of research and development center without specific programs. Nixon's explanation consistently reflected Moynihan's deep concern with the first few years of childhood development, an area in which he feels research has progressed far enough to warrant permanent legislation-unlike many other aspects of the poverty program. Said Nixon: "We have learned that intelligence is not fixed at birth, but is largely formed by the environmental influences. We must make a national commitment to providing all American children an opportunity for healthful and stimulating development during the first...
...been through during the past year, it's pretty difficult for me to hold any truck with feigned innocence, especially when it's held on to so stubbornly. Anouilh is best when he's simply being stylishly bitchy. There are probably enough of such moments in The Rehearsal to warrant a trip into Boston...
...majority--happily--do not consider that such perplexities warrant departure from good sense coupled with civility, or condone insistence on having one's way regardless of others' rights and feelings. A sufficient explanation will have to be sought elsewhere...
...above case is not a hypothetical, law-school exercise. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court was sharply divided on the question. Overturning the 1965 gambling conviction of William Spinelli, a 5-to-3 majority ruled that the U.S. Commissioner who issued the search warrant that led to Spinelli's arrest did not have "probable cause" to do so. The warrant, said the court, should have contained both more detail on what led the informant to conclude that the phones were for bet taking, and some support for the FBI claim that the informant's word could be trusted...