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Died. Harry Kalven Jr., 60, University of Chicago law professor who, with Colleague Hans Zeisel, wrote The American Jury, a definitive and laudatory tome on the U.S. jury system; of an apparent heart attack; at home in Chicago. An ardent civil libertarian, Kalven frequently argued First Amendment cases, including Entertainer Lenny Bruce's 1963 obscenity appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court; contemptuous of censorship, he regarded obscenity laws as "foolish and trivial." A projected major work on legal theories underlying freedom of speech was half completed when he was stricken...
LAMM V. VANDERHOOF The environment is the main issue in Colorado, and it would be hard to find a more ardent environmentalist that Democrat Richard Lamm, 39. Minority whip in the state house of representatives, Lamm led the successful fight to keep the 1976 Winter Olympics out of Colorado, on the ground that they would affect thoustands of visitors who would threaten the environment. He sponsored a land-use bilt that lost by a single vote...
...modest increase in public-service jobs got a nod last week from Labor Secretary Peter Brennan. In a television interview, he favored a $1 billion program to create 200,000 jobs if the unemployment rate reaches 6% (it was 5.4% in August). Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns is an ardent backer of an even bigger plan...
After the war Lindbergh, while still remaining a high-level consultant to Pan American World Airways, became an early, ardent and passionate conservationist, traveling around the world in the cause of the environment. In his last years his favorite spot was a simple, five-acre retreat on the Hawaiian island of Maui...
Aside from the expanded role that the Secret Service is bound to play in their lives, the Ford children are not likely to let their father's new responsibilities chill their ardent sense of independence. Blonde and graceful, Susan has already shown that she is in the tradition of perky presidential daughters; last week she brought along to the inaugural ceremonies Current Beau Gardner Britt, 17, who will enter Virginia Polytechnic Institute this fall. Steve was admitted not long ago to Duke University, but before settling down in college, he has opted to take a year off to work...