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Miller, for one, considers such alarms trivial in the light of the Bomb. "We are now passing through a period of what might be called 'cosmic insensitivity,' " he says, "a period when God seems more than ever absent from the world and man is doomed to come face to face with the fate he has created for himself. At such a moment, the question of whether a man be guilty of using obscene language in printed books seems to me inconsequential. It is almost as if, while taking a walk through a green field, I espied a blade...
...Granville Pointer was haled before a preliminary hearing in Houston. He had no lawyer and did not cross-examine his alleged victim, who then moved to California and did not appear at Pointer's trial. Vainly invoking the confrontation clause, Pointer was convicted on the transcript of the absent victim's untested testimony. Because he could have cross-examined at the preliminary hearing, the state's highest court upheld his conviction...
...murder trial was interrupted for four days because the judge vanished on an alcoholic binge. Indignantly, California's now retired Chief Justice Phil S. Gibson spurred a bar-bench study that turned up a surprising number of shocking statistics. Of five judges in one county, four had been absent for as long as a year because of ill health. Despite mounting case loads, other judges thought nothing of taking three-month vacations and playing golf during court hours. Others needed psychiatric care; many were just plain aged...
Married. Princess Fadia, 21, youngest daughter of Egypt's ex-king Farouk and his first wife Farida; and Pierre Orloff, 26, Swiss geologist, well-born son of an exiled White Russian; in a civil ceremony at which Farouk was noticeably absent (he wanted Fadia to marry a Moslem, not a Russian Orthodox); in London...
There is the one about absent-minded Bachelor Great-Granduncle