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Appeal to the People. The major piece of legislation remaining before Congress is Frei's landmark "Chileani-zation of copper" agreement. Needing only a congressional O.K. before it goes into effect, the deal will give the government a 51% interest in the U.S.'s Braden Copper Co. and a 25% interest in two new U.S. mining ventures, the most promising of which will extend operations at Chuquicamata, already the world's largest open-pit copper mine (TIME, Jan. 1). Nationalists and leftists in Congress are not likely to act on that presidential idea either. They accuse Frei...
This is Le Crazy Horse Saloon, a Paris landmark now celebrating its tenth anniversary as a strip joint. The place nightly draws 250 eager customers-better than half of them foreigners-who with mixed emotions gradually discover that they have come to a place that refuses to take seriously either sex, itself, or its customers. Everything about the place is parody except the prices: the first drink costs $7, the second...
...shall the courts determine voluntariness? In Jackson's case, New York saw its procedure as eminently fair-let the jury decide. Jackson nonetheless appealed to the Supreme Court, which last June handed down a landmark decision (Jackson v. Denno) voiding the New York procedure as unconstitutional. "The New York jury returns only a general verdict upon the ultimate question of guilt or innocence," said Justice Byron White, speaking for a narrow 5-to-4 majority. "It is impossible to discover whether the jury found the confession voluntary and relied upon it, or involuntary and supposedly ignored...
...Landmark Article. As the law goes, privacy is virtually a brand-new right. Until 1890, no U.S. or British court had ever granted relief expressly for "the right to be let alone." Then came a landmark article in the Harvard Law Review by two young Boston lawyers, Samuel D. Warren and Louis D. Brandeis (the future Supreme Court justice). As they saw it, the modern press had become so snoopy that modern man was being subjected to "mental pain and distress far greater than could be inflicted by mere bodily injury." Their insistence on privacy as a new legal right...
...University's Arnold Arboretum, called "America's greatest garden," was named a National Historic Landmark by Interior Secretary Stewart Udall Monday...