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...Briar Patch. Different and then some. Armed with a passionate belief in "business-type supervision of the business operations of courts" and a native sense of how to push without shoving, Heflin has transformed Alabama's antique judiciary into one of the most modern and efficient in the U.S. He no sooner had his Dictaphone than he began sweet-talking the legislature and the electorate into reforming the state's briar patch of conflicting court jurisdictions and ludicrous rules. It was a five-year campaign, but he won it. Next January Alabama will get a single statewide court...
Clad only in surgical masks, two men dashed through a packed amphitheater where Harvard students were taking a first-year anatomy exam. Watching from his front porch, the president of Virginia's elegant Sweet Briar College gallantly applauded as 50 of his coeds sprinted by adorned only in their class years, lipsticked on in an approximate license-plate position. On busy U.S. Route 1, traffic was brought to a cheerful standstill by 533 University of Maryland students chain-dancing au naturel. With astonishing swiftness, streaking, the art of the point-to-point dash in the buff, has burgeoned into...
...BRIAR PATCH...
Murray Kempton is sometimes bril liant in his perceptions of the angry prides and prejudices and the different worlds that met in Justice John Murtagh's New York City courtroom. But The Briar Patch is weirdly overwritten. Kempton's high prose style often so veneers the drama that even the simple facts of the case become difficult to follow. The language sometimes seems a travesty of James or Gibbon undertaking to describe Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant. Kempton simultaneously affects engagement and disdainful detachment, and the result occasionally leaves him drifting over the events in a kind of rhetorical...
...then Farmer Brown will frown on the old briar patch and call it wasteland and threaten to clear away all the bushes and trees," wrote Author Thornton Burgess in 1947, in "The Old Briar Patch." But in the end Farmer Brown always decided to save the patch - and so last week did the town of Sandwich, Mass. (pop. 5,000). By unanimous vote, the 800 citizens decided to spend $200,000 to buy up 57 acres of meadows, ponds and forest, including the five acres of bull and cat briars that har bored such Burgess creatures as Reddy Fox, Bobby...