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...alternatives: add judges or cut the load. Because some experts insist that appellate courts should have no more than nine judges, Congress will shortly be asked to reduce the Fifth's jurisdiction by creating a new seven-judge circuit court to handle Texas, Louisiana and the Canal Zone...
...crept into the bedroom of Richard's father, Charles Worthington, where Joel killed the sleeping contractor by firing a .22 rifle bullet into his brain. Next day the youths wrapped the bodies in stone-weighted canvas, loaded them in the family station wagon, and dumped them in a canal 18 miles away, where a fisherman found them four days later...
...Beirut. The First National Banks of Boston and Chicago are negotiating to open outlets, and another 13 banks have recently been incorporated. Says Lebanese Banking Association President Pierre Edde, whose growing Beirut Riyadh Bank is moving into a new ten-story building: "Beirut handles capital like the Suez Canal handles ships." Saud & Hussein. Because it is both the cosmopolitan gateway to the Middle East and an island of stability in a newly rich but eternally turbulent region, Beirut has become the prudent banker to nervous kings, African smugglers, such huge U.S. oil companies as Aramco, frightened capitalists from socialist Egypt...
Died. Mary Pinchot Meyer, 43, Washington abstract artist and niece of Pennsylvania's late Governor Gifford Pinchot; of bullet wounds in the head and chest inflicted by an unsuccessful robber, while she was taking a stroll along the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal towpath near her Georgetown studio...
...Nietzsche, seeking a synonym for music, the answer was "always and only Venice." But it is a painter's city. Lodged between water and sky, the seaport that calls itself Serenissima is an unending symphony of light. Its sun-mellowed stones and shimmering canals, its façades etched in chiaroscuro against sea-fresh skies, its wide horizons and weirdly shifting perspectives have challenged and eluded more artists than any other city in the world. Of all the painters who have attempted to capture the visual music of Venice-and some of the greatest have been Venetians-none...