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...such contracts affects his conduct of the defense. Consider the case of James Earl Ray, who now claims that he was denied effective counsel because of his lawyers' interests in a book about him. His first lawyer, Arthur Hanes, made a deal with Ray and Author William Bradford Huie that provided for articles and a book about Ray by Huie. To cover mounting legal bills, Ray later turned his share over to Hanes. The lawyer thus earned at least $25,000 from Huie's magazine articles before Ray fired him. Hanes then assigned his rights in the contract...
...what it will take to tame the unions, Victor Grayson Hardie Feather may be just the man to bring it off. He has the name,* and the background. The son of a sometime furniture polisher and full-time pacifist, Feather was born in the milling town of Bradford and went to work filling flour sacks at 14. He worked nights on a local Socialist paper, where he used to talk politics with the publisher's daughter, who is now Minister of Employment and Productivity, Barbara Castle. At 29, choosing unionism "because I wanted to get rid of poverty," Feather...
...Joiner, then a septuagenarian wildcatter, opened up the great East Texas oilfields in 1930 when he brought in his gusher, Daisy Bradford No. 3. Legend has it that soon afterward he lost oil leases worth $100 million in a three-day card game. "Anything you hear about the boom towns won't be an exaggeration," says H. L. Hunt, the multimillionaire, who remembers that holdup men were so common that he and his partners would always walk single file and 16 feet apart when they went to town. The reason, he explains, was that "the bandits wouldn...
...past month, two Allegheny Airline Convair 580 turboprops crashed at the Bradford Regional Airport in northern Pennsylvania. Both were approaching the field in similar snowstorms, using the VOR-DME instrument technique. At FAA urging, Allegheny has just raised the level of minimal weather conditions for VOR-DME approaches to a ceiling of 1,000 ft. and visibility of three miles. As in the other approach cases, the board has not yet established a direct connection between the crash and the instrument system either aboard the plane or on the ground. However, at week's end, the Air Line Pilots...
...already learned that the press does not always obey. Long before the trial, which has been continued to March 3, Battle issued an order against any prejudicial statements to the news media by lawyers, witnesses and others involved in the case. Still, Look published two articles by William Bradford Huie, a journalist who has bought exclusive rights to Ray's story and has also interviewed several potential witnesses. Reporting that Ray was hired in Canada to do some smuggling for a man named Raoul, Huie suggests that both men were part of a plot to kill Dr. King...