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...whose family controlled what became the Brunswick Corp., which makes bowling alleys and other products. He served as the company's counsel until he was elected a state circuit-court judge in 1947. A generous supporter of the Republican Party, he became the first Jew on the federal bench in the Northern Illinois district when President Eisenhower appointed...
...conflict of interest that have been raised against Haynsworth are justified "in a technical sense." But he added that he is concerned about raising to the Supreme Court "a judge who's spent so much of his time and energy in managing his investments after coming to the bench...
...range historical view of the Supreme Court last week. After all, they said in quiet self-commiseration, the Senate quarreled for four months in 1916 before confirming Louis Brandeis' nomination-and whatever the cavils raised at the time, Brandeis went on to a long, distinguished career on the bench...
Judge Julius J. Hoffman, 74, arrogated the star's role to himself. With occasionally histrionic flourishes, he has consistently overruled defense motions and objections. When four lawyers who had helped to prepare the defense sent telegrams withdrawing from the case, Judge Hoffman issued bench warrants for their arrest. He ordered two of them-Gerald B. Lefcourt of New York and Michael Tigar of Santa Monica-jailed for contempt. The others-Michael Kennedy of San Francisco and Dennis Roberts of Oakland-obtained a supervening order from a U.S. district judge in San Francisco. Ordinarily, a lawyer appears in court...
...waiting to ask for amnesty for prisoners. Instead of holding him in a distant shot which would reveal the entire room, the camera moves in behind de Sica, coming to rest with him and showing perhaps three figures. It then pans left to show another couple, over to a bench where four figures are slumped, to the right where a few more are standing against a wall. For the emotional distance of long-shot Rossellini substitutes a far more powerful medium-shot whose fluidity covers the whole room...