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...When in doubt about personal motivation and/or lacking common sense, let us hastily draw our conclusions from the gospel according to Freud and rap "Mom" on the knuckles again...
...specifically Communist crime is "hooliganism," a rubric that covers everything from horsing around in public to beating up policemen. Hooliganism is intimately associated with alcohol-fully 80% of arrested hooligans prove to be stoned on vodka or Georgian wine. Most of them regard the customary 15-day jail rap as a holiday from work. From now on, the fact that a man is drunk when he commits a crime is to be considered an aggravating rather than an extenuating circumstance...
...seemed late in the day for the Supreme Court to feel the urge to reaffirm those rights, the court itself was at least partially to blame. "We dealt with certain phases of this problem recently," Warren said, "in Escobedo v. Illinois." In that case, the court overturned a murder rap against Danny Escobedo (TIME cover, April 29) because Chicago police had extracted a confession from him after denying him access to a lawyer he asked for-a lawyer who was also in the police station asking to see him. The generalities with which the court disposed of that specific problem...
...choice between appealing Weinfeld's ruling to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and retrying Elksnis on the murder charge. What is not known is whether the ruling will bring a flood of appeals from convicts who struck similar bargains and now figure they will beat the rap because time has eroded the evidence...
...beauty." Indeed the Christian concept of grace-never earned, never under man's control-seems to nullify the idea that a man can attain a mystical experience by taking a pill. Psychedelic mystics tend to look toward the Eastern religions, in which, as one puts it, "you rap [have rapport] with the world; you rap with dogs and trees and everything makes sense...