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...Supreme Court's Miranda decision (TIME, June 24). Like many another law-enforcement officer, Younger feared that because of the high court's holding that every suspect must be reminded "prior to questioning" of his right to silence and to legal counsel, there would be a virtual end to all voluntary confessions and a sharp and disheartening decline in successful prosecutions...
...withdrew from the contest, and Kennedy invited O'Connor down to his McLean, Va., home for breakfast and a chat. In a sense, Kennedy was also coming to O'Connor's table. He pledged preconvention neutrality, which was all that O'Connor needed for the virtual assurance that he would get the nomination to oppose Governor Nelson Rockefeller's bid for a third term...
...pretty tense situation," said Jim Hayes, the leader of the march. But he had no criticism of police. "We don't ask for police protection--we just try to talk to people instead." Wherever they go, violence is likely, Without police, the likelihood becomes a virtual certainly. Again, this has become routine, and the marchers pass over it almost glibbly. But their refusal to ask for protection separates them from most other protestors. It is an important distinction...
...Just Like a Woman" is one of the very exciting things we have to deal with. Natural, seemingly without artifice but for a few lines, this is Dylan's tenderest humanism since "North Country Blues" (Opus 3). It defines with sincere concern and virtual clairvoyance the girl-woman, innocence-experience, stage of ambivalent transition. Its chorus echoes simply...
...prices, now 72?, and Peru-based companies followed suit. Last week Chile again hiked its price, this time to 70?. In the U.S., the Administration has held the price at 36? by a combination of presidential arm-twisting, massive releases from Government stockpiles, subsidies to mining companies, and a virtual ban on exports...