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...Village Gate, the Herbie Mann Septet was serving up one of its typical jazz potpourris: gently infectious bossa nova, thumping Afro-Cuban, variations on a North African tribal chant, a Middle Eastern treatment of the theme from Fiddler on the Roof, a brooding interpretation of a classical piano piece writ ten in 1888 by French Composer Erik Satie. Mann also introduced a new gimmick: he played a flute improvisation against a tape recording of eerily exotic, centuries-old gagaku music, played by the royal musicians of Japan's imperi al court, a memento picked up when Mann played with...
Andrade's lawyer, Phill Silver, has petitioned the California Supreme Court for a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that California law permits only county superior courts to order sterilization, and only for two classes of persons-rapists of young children and state-confined sex degenerates. To Lawyer Silver, at least, a California municipal court judge has no right whatever to place fathers unable to support young children in the same category. Procedure that seemed perfectly proper to Justice Holmes in the '20s, Silver argues, is cruel and unusual punishment...
...contempt," intoned Cox, ordering Hauberg to jail "until you decide to comply." Cox then ordered Katzenbach "to show cause why he should not be adjudged guilty of contempt."* Irreparable Damage. Faced with an unprecedented challenge, the Justice Department last week petitioned the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals for a writ of prohibition against Cox's order on the ground that the U.S. Attorney General has sole authority for initiating all federal prosecutions. This does not prevent Cox's grand jury from issuing indictments with an outside lawyer's help, but it does free the Government from participating...
...back and refused even to give his name. Indignant at such irreverence, the legislature ordered Singh locked up in the Lucknow jail for seven days. He countered by getting two judges of Uttar Pradesh's highest court to spring him on bail pending his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The legislature countered by rearresting Singh-and holding the two judges in contempt. When the full state court issued a stay on the contempt warrants for their colleagues, the legislature issued warrants for their arrest. By that time, things were getting so hot that India's President...
...giants--Ec 1, Hist 169, Nat Sci 5, and Fine Arts 13--siphon off great bands of students, Erik Eriksons' Soc Sci 139 (Bust to Dust) initiates the ignorant in the mysteries of the life cycle, a modest subject on which Erikson's expertise has gained world acclaim, Life, writ large and lustily, is also a prime topic in one of the college's best (and toughest) English courses. "Chaucer" (Eng 115). For those with a yen for comparative studies, Professor Giovanni Sartori of the University of Florence holds forth in Gov 112b, "Political Systems of Continental Europe...