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...latest feat in his 14 years of pilfering. He already ranks fifth (after Cobb, Eddie Col lins, Max Carey and Honus Wagner) in lifetime steals (685), and holds the major league record for the most seasons (ten) with 50 or more stolen bases. Cincinnati's Superstar Catcher Johnny Bench, who has the best throwing arm in baseball, admits, "There just isn't any way to stop Brock if he gets a decent lead...
Having been urged by the high bench to establish their own community standards, many states have been rewriting their obscenity laws-often to the distress of serious publishers and film makers. Last week Massachusetts enacted a law that will allow district attorneys to order arrests on pornography charges without a prior court ruling on whether the material involved was in fact obscene. Publishing executives worry that the mere threat of such arbitrary arrests will have a "chilling effect" on the industry...
...rest of their lives. Concerned by this distance between jurist and jail, New York State's top judicial administrative board has announced a new rule requiring judges to visit prisons and other detention facilities at least once every four years. The board hopes that getting off the bench and behind the bars - sensitivity training of sorts - will "strengthen the understanding judges have of facilities and institutions to which they send individuals." That may well be true, but one great psychological gap will remain, based on the simple fact that cell doors will always swing open at the slightest gesture...
Judge Gerhard A. Gesell's scalding lectures to James St. Clair are typical of the outspoken jurist's conduct on the bench. A Yale Law School graduate (1935) and longtime Washington attorney in both private and Government practice, Gesell, a Democrat, was appointed to the federal judiciary by Lyndon Johnson in 1967. He generally takes a libertarian line and has been a tart critic of Government wiretapping, restrictive anti-abortion laws and the Nixon Administration's mass arrests during the 1971 May Day antiwar demonstrations. Noted for facing judicial issues headon, Gesell has been both helpful...
...full time in 1968, he was an angry and confused young man. When he struck out, as he did often enough to lead the league for four consecutive years, he would toss his bat to the ground or slam his batting helmet onto the dugout bench. His morale was not helped by a bitter feud that quickly developed with Finley. This dispute, which began over salary and spread in 1970 to Jackson's quality of play, reached a peak late that summer. While crossing the plate after hitting a grand-slam home run, he saluted Finley with an obscene...