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Even neglecting the larger issue, the higher court must dismiss the prosecution's case because it rests on a confusing and contradictory welter of evidence. As he did during the trial, Assistant District Attorney Newman A. Flanagan drowned his weak appeal in emotionalism. Flanagan could not contradict the overwhelming evidence that the fetus never lived outside of the mother's womb--only this would have legally constituted birth, according to the trial judge, James P. Maguire--but he could shout emotionally that "this is the case of a child that was born." Even given his contention that a child...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Acquit Edelin | 4/24/1976 | See Source »

...exquisite intertribal tensions. Particularly in detailing the history of John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s five powerful sons, they carefully document the extent and form of the family's influence. In this modern, financially stable stage, their lives are inextricably bound up with the course of the nation, through a welter of foundations, governmental bureaus, financial institutions and the family specialty these days, report-writing panels of experts...

Author: By Nick Lemann, | Title: Poor Little Rich People | 4/22/1976 | See Source »

...between blacks and whites and easy judgments about imperialism and shamytowns are false ones. When you use such terms, he cautions a white arrival, you begin to think only in "comic strips," without saying anything. Gross appearances are much too deceiving, he suggests, as the truth lies in the welter of relations and facts belied by appearances...

Author: By Phillip Weiss, | Title: Them Belly Full, But They Hungry | 3/11/1976 | See Source »

...buildings is labeled "American Opinion, 395 Concord Ave.," with a single large American flag dangling over the front door. Inside, the only open doors are to the right, in a sea of fake wood paneling. The doors lead into a bookstore where sits the receptionist, Sally Riley, amidst a welter of reprints, newsletters, magazines, bumper stickers, and books with screaming titles, blood dripping dramatically down the covers, chains a prominent motif, and "Conspiracy" figuring in almost every title. During a five-hour span when I was in and out of the bookstore, as I toured the Society's headquarters, nobody...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: The Birchers Are Busy in Belmont | 11/19/1975 | See Source »

Every State. Despite this welter of threats, President Ford last week showed no sign of wanting to call off his barnstorming. He still liked to cite the number of states he had visited, the Governors and mayors he had met, the miles he had traveled, as though they somehow were proof of his leadership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENT: Under Guard, but Still on the Road | 10/13/1975 | See Source »

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