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...accused and its purpose is to elicit a confession." And predictably, state courts have already found themselves grappling with Escobedo's scope and retroactivity. Items: > In Providence, Escobedo has just reached down as far as traffic offenses in the case of Jose Gonsalves, 33, a Portuguese alien, whose car was involved in a collision at a Providence intersection. A policeman asked Gonsalves if he had stopped before proceeding with caution past a flashing red traffic light. When Gonsalves said no, the cop issued an on-the-spot summons. Because the cop failed to warn Gonsalves that...
...Dolores Del Rio are intimations of the tragedy that might have been. Most of the time, though, Ford scatters his beleaguered redskins listlessly across a 70-mm. Super Panavision landscape, showing twice the width but little of the scope that distinguished such Ford classics as Stagecoach. Perhaps he feels alien to Indians who don't come over the hill in war paint. The make-believe Cheyennes appear somewhat out of it themselves. When they are not struggling with the white man's words, they address one another in Navajo...
...Attorney General's office. Made up of three clergymen, a high school principle, a police chief, and a newspaper publisher, the Commission is chaired by Joseph Zabriskie, who insists that the "rank-and-file in the state" endorse its efforts to seek out obscene literature which is alien to prevailing community standards...
Lithuanian-born Author Sinai, 40, is an Israeli citizen who is now lecturing at Manhattan's New School of Social Research. Along with some other realistic observers, he contends that Western imperialism was much too easygoing. Assailed by guilt feelings, sentimentalizing the alien cultures over which they ruled, the imperialists failed to overhaul the social structures of the subject nations. They gave the non-West a taste for Western-style living without supplying them with the economic base or the management training that could provide it. As a result, the former colonies, now touchily proud new nations, are worse...
Poor Bitos, by Jean Anouilh. A game played for real is either war or murder. In France, the game of politics is a visceral sport. Poor Bitos hinges on this sport, but American playgoers may respond more to its fascinating intellectuality than to its somewhat alien passions...