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...freer psychiatric testimony, might also undermine many defense attempts based on "irresistible impulse." which in the past has been responsible for some highly questionable acquittals. Said the Circuit Court's opinion: "Juries will continue to make moral judgments . . . But in making such judgments, they will be guided by wider horizons of knowledge concerning mental life...
...Yale, coach Howard Hobson, who originally proposed the wider lane ten years ago, said, "I expect a faster game next year from the rule change." He also approved of the uniformity given to the game by playing "one and one" throughout the contest...
Cappy Cappon, coach of Princeton's Ivy League championship team, agreed with Wilson that there will be more zone defense played next year, but he said "I don't think the game will be affected very much." He expected the wider lane to lessen the tall man's rebounding advantage of the offensive backboards, but to increase his edge off the defensive boards...
...danger. In the middle of the track, a tiny Renault had cartwheeled onto its back. Said drifted wide to miss it. Suddenly, he was bearing down on a stretcher where Renault Driver Jean Rédelé, badly shaken, was waiting to be carried off. Said drifted wider and a parked Cadillac ambulance loomed in front of him. He swung his wheels hard over, skidded out of control and smashed into the ambulance. Unhurt, Said walked away. His Ferrari was finished...
...their emancipation, thinks Anne Lindbergh, modern women have become bonded in a wider enslavement. Women ("the great vacationless class") simply must take time alone if they are to regain this "timeless inner strength" which "we [have] been seduced into abandoning . . . for the temporal outer strength of man. " As she picks up shell after shell during her seaside musings, Author Lindbergh seems to hear in them the murmur of delicate truths-the double-sunrise suggests the early stage of marriage; the oyster, with small shells clinging to its back, symbolizes the middle years of marriage, children, the home; the moon shell...