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Illegal. In Albany, N.Y., Attorney John Ford, representing Ralph Lambert in a stolen car case, swore out a warrant for his client's arrest, charging that Lambert had stolen his lawyer's automobile...
Last week 37 of the 43 Beefeaters still under warrant organized Branch 338 of the Civil Service [trade] Union. Even after the union raised its age limit to 65, four were ineligible (the oldest, Yeoman David Sprake, is 84) ; two others refused to join. Said one: "When you mount guard, you may know that nowadays there are no marauders outside the Tower and no prisoners inside. But you wouldn't stop mounting guard, would you? You just can't keep changing things...
...often may be, is that they tend to discourage original reporting and newsgathering enterprise . . . No one can quarrel with the Pentagon that on news of 'transcendent importance' there should be simultaneous release to all news media. But there are relatively few such stories-not enough surely, to warrant a general and vague rule susceptible of misrepresentation and abuse. The only result of the order, it seems to us, will be to put a premium on irresponsibility...
Restitution, however, would not necessarily release the suspect, police said. It might aid more lenient prosecution, but if the detectives feel that anyone is guilty, they will serve a warrant for grand larceny...
Ordinarily the critic of a student production is dealing with an amateurish version of a good play, and his duty is to say whether the company has done well enough by its material to warrant praise. But in the case of the Harvard Theatre Group's production of Corionanus, the situation is exactly the opposite: the performance is good, the play is undoubtedly bad. The makes it hard to criticize...