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...sure, the issue was never one of total suppression, since both court records and the paperbound publications remained readily available. Still, the Government did end up having second thoughts. Tax Division Chief Glenn Archer's signature was on the censorship petition, and at first he defended it to reporters. But after the storm of criticism, the department contended Archer had not known what his assistants were asking for. "This doesn't represent the policy of the Justice Department," said Deputy Attorney General Edward Schmults. "It was a mistake, and it won't happen again...
...that the law would cover membership in private clubs that derive "a substantial portion of income from business sources"? Supporters of the proposal noted that much legal business is transacted in clubs that routinely exclude women or members of minority groups. A nay vote, argued Dennis Archer of Detroit, "would be an A.B.A.-sanctioned blackball against some of your colleagues." The delegates backed the proposal, 183 to 152, although there was no official recommendation that lawyers as individuals should resign membership in discriminatory clubs...
...hostility to Reagan prompted San Antonio City Councilman Van Archer to complain: "There's just no way in the world I can understand how 200 women who don't shave their legs can claim to speak for the women of America." His remark suggested a poor eye for legs as well as for polls. The women of America, in every social, economic and racial group and in every geographic region, have consistently given President Reagan a poorer performance rating than have men. A New York Times/CBS News poll revealed that among Republicans the discrepancy between...
DIED. Ross Macdonald, 67, writer of taut, psychologically acute detective novels; of Alzheimer's disease, which he had had for three years; in Santa Barbara, Calif. In such books as The Moving Target, The Gallon Case and The Chill, his sleuth Lew Archer roamed Southern California through false fronts and cracked surfaces to unearth his clients' dark familial sins and secrets that almost always led to murder. Born Kenneth Millar, he adopted his pseudonym after his wife Margaret became a successful mystery novelist. Though his early work echoed Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, his only peers among modern...
...Archer said she had not originally planned to enter the contest, but did so at the encouragement of a friend...