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...Entry to apartments by Harvard personnel without consent of the occupants...
...Silence gives consent." So runs an ancient maxim of common law, and from that maxim flows a widely applied legal principle: the rule of tacit admission. On the theory that an innocent man would loudly deny a serious charge, the rule holds that a suspect silent in the face of an accusation has tacitly admitted the crime. And such silence can later be introduced at his trial as an indicator of guilt...
...head of government, Constantine still reigned over Greece, and without his consent no governmental action could legally be taken. Yet the palace coup that had occurred without the palace's consent offered him a cruel choice: either to fight the coup openly and risk being toppled from his throne or go along reluctantly in the hope of being able to influence the military later. For the time being, he chose the latter course...
Divorced. By Sheila MacRae, 43, nightclub comedienne and long-suffering but saber-tongued second TV wife of Jackie Gleason in The Honeymooners; Gordon MacRae, 46, pop balladeer and film star (Oklahoma!, Carousel): by mutual consent on grounds of incompatibility; after 25 years of marriage, four children; in Juarez, Mexico...
...governor alone does not decide questions of clemency or commutation. Stays of execution, commutations, and pardons can be given only with the consent of the eight-member Council. Unfortunately this year the governor is an ambitious, calculating Republican vice Presidential candidate and the majority of the Council are stern, stolid, calculating Democrats. The governor and councillors are will aware that the Commonwealth's system of shared responsibility is little known or understood and that in the eyes of the nation any executions would be the fault of vice-presidential candidate Volpe. The prospect of the Democratic councillor's letting...