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...Sheriff C.V. ("Buster") Kern jailed one William Whirl in Houston on charges of burglary and theft. The district attorney had the case dismissed for insufficient evidence. The order went down to set Whirl free. Somehow the release slip went astray, and Whirl lan guished in jail for nine months until the mistake was discovered. Upon being freed, Whirl filed a civil suit against Sheriff Kern for depriving him not only of his liberty but also his artificial...
...Whirl won his case early this year and got a $25,000 judgment against Sheriff Kern, who lacks that kind of money...
...quarter-century after the cold war began, Willy Brandt, the anti-Nazi who last October became West Germany's first postwar Socialist Chancellor, is seeking to lessen the obstacles that still divide Europe. As soon as he came to power, Brandt touched off a whirl of diplomatic activity. One of his first acts was to end West Germany's 18-month reluctance to sign the nuclear-nonproliferation treaty. Only last week, in ceremonies in Washington, Moscow and London, the pact prohibiting the spread of nuclear weaponry was finally proclaimed to be in effect. Thanks to De Gaulle...
...year-old widower with a grown son, Scheel in July married an attractive Munich physician who will be a welcome addition to Bonn's diplomatic whirl. For the easygoing Scheel, however, his new eminence imposes a few regrettable strictures. Not the least of them is that he can no longer wear loud sports jackets or whiz about Bonn in his zippy BMW 2500 sedan ("the businessman's sports car"). Even a foe of pretension must allow himself to be chauffeured in a stately black Mercedes if he also happens to be West Germany's Foreign Minister...
...will stay pretty much the same, though it will be "less personal"-Anderson's respectful way of saying that he won't play favorites. Pearson, the charmer, was susceptible to social graces in others. But Anderson, a nondrinking, nonsmoking family man (nine children), avoids the Washington social whirl. If anything, the column can be expected to get tougher...