Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...June hearing, Shaddy was ordered to stay in the hospital, but a follow-up hearing last week released him. The police and prosecutors are angry. Says Wichita D.A. Vern Miller: "People wonder whether there is something wrong with the System. Most of the police on the case say he never was insane." Added Deputy Police Chief Bill Cornwell: "Part of our problem was that evidence procedures today are such that you are unable to say the things that you want to a jury." The prosecution's view remains the same: that Shaddy hoodwinked the psychiatrists as well...
...laws and lawyers. Says Laurence Silberman, a former U.S. Deputy Attorney General who is now counsel to the Wall Street law firm Dewey Ballantine: "The legal process, because of its unbridled growth, has become a cancer which threatens the vitality of our forms of capitalism and democracy." Others wonder whether the rule of law will prevail in the U.S., or the rule of lawyers...
...father Gene was a world heavyweight champion and his wife Kathinka a Swedish skier in the 1962 world championships. No wonder former California Senator John Tunney has a special love of sports. He also has a law degree and a friend who asked his help in getting the U.S. license for the 1980 Moscow Olympics logo-a Russian bear named Misha. After months of telexing messages to Moscow, Tunney got the license, and presto, he and his friend have exclusive rights in the Western Hemisphere to promote the Olympics. On the drawing board: Olympic T shirts, buckles, decals and posters...
...most flatlanders find that mountains stimulate both imagination and curiosity. Looking at pinnacles never seems to be enough; sooner or later, mountain gazers begin to wonder if there is room...
Those who have made an ascent -whether to the top of the Matterhorn or to the less rarefied heights of a 1,000-ft. peak in their nearest state park-are likely to agree with Jerome's paeans to the joys of topography. "Wonder and delight await, up there," he says. So does "elbowroom for the soul." Even those who have never left sea level will enjoy the au thor's lofty musings. Jerome points out that a range like the Himalayas is still growing (Everest may be more than a foot harder to climb in a hundred...