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...settling the case before the circuit court judges will even hear it. As a result, the number of cases settled or withdrawn before hearing last year in the Second was one-third higher than in the other circuits. If the case goes forward, further separation of wheat from legal chaff occurs. Purely technical motions that may obscure issues or delay hearings are quickly resolved. In simpler cases, lawyers are urged to make their points in typewritten "letter briefs" of no more than ten pages...
...less skilled practitioners, can cause permanent astigmatism and other eye damage. Says Ophthalmologist G. Peter Halberg, a specialist in contact lenses at St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan: "Properly presented and investigated, orthokeratology could be acceptable some time in the future. There's a lot of chaff and some grain, and we are in the process of separating the grain from the chaff...
...stunt riled Montana State University Economics Professor Maurice Taylor, who does not think farmers are in such bad shape. He sarcastically offered to trade one of his lectures for a subscription to the Gazette. The editor, perhaps proving that he knows how to separate the wheat from the chaff, turned down the professor...
...that denouement, LaZebnik has contrived a few good songs and some priceless comic sequences. Unfortunately, though, his creative abandon is undisciplined by a critical eye; and, as a result, the wheat of LeZebnik's on-the-mark parodies remains mixed with the chaff of puns and punch lines that fall pitifully flat...
Editing, the late, Adlai Stevenson once observed, consists of separating the wheat from the chaff-and printing the chaff. Something like that, only worse, seems to have happened at TV Guide when it received a program listing for a now defunct local talk show on San Francisco-Oakland's KTVU. The notice said that guests for the show on Sept. 20,1968, would include Pat Montandon, a well-known Bay Area hostess who had written a book about giving imaginative parties on lean budgets, and an unnamed masked prostitute. TV Guide's condensed version: "From party girl...