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...fact, the practical impact of the Nixon-wrought shift will not be the true measure of what the President has done to the court. Just as Nixon has too broadly implied that expanded protection for defendants caused rising crime rates, so has he created false expectations that by changing the court's makeup, he will bring about a decrease in lawbreaking. In a more subtle sense, however, the court's new pose will undoubtedly have the psychological effect of lending added respect to the political drive for law-and-order...
...truly wonderful folks who gave us the classic show of the preschool generation, Sesame Street. On Thursday night, Oct. 21, some 145 commercial channels will carry a sneak preview of what 18 months of research, a budget of $7,000,000* and the Workshop's wonted imagination have wrought. Judging from several prescreenings, The Electric Company, the new daily half-hour reading series for 7-to 10-year-olds, is a worthy sibling of Sesame Street, and a bright second cousin to Laugh-In in its youthful prime...
...generation grows up, the horrors of war will fade, as they have in Japan and Korea. But the profound changes in the economic life of the country, wrought by the war will remain...
...that Germany has always carried with it a special kind of doom, and that the horrors of Third Reich totalitarianism were utterly consistent with the nation's past. Now, in The 12-Year Reich, Richard Grunberger draws a chilling corollary: Hitler's accession in 1933, he contends, wrought no sudden or serious changes in the daily life and social institutions of Germany. Most Germans took to the swastika as naturally as they would to a new hiking path in the Schwarzwald...
Cooper also handles another popular item, the refillable candle. One fast seller is an $18 sculptured bird standing on wrought-iron feet. Everything burns but the feet. San Francisco's Candles to Burn features sand-cast candles in the form of owls and mushrooms that can be refilled when the candle inside has burned itself...