Word: circuit
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...resemblance between Larry Mahan, 23, and the bowlegged characters who worked the oldtime rodeo circuit is purely coincidental. Mahan does not even know how to roll his own cigarettes. In fact, he does not smoke, or drink hard liquor. He shaves every morning, says "Sir" and "Ma'am," and occasionally wears a suit and a tie. He owns land in Oregon and a power sweeping company in San Diego; he is a partner in businesses in Arizona and Texas. Larry could be anything but a cowboy-until he climbs on the back of a bucking stallion...
...court order, signed by District Judges Frank M. Johnson Jr. and H. H. Grooms and Judge Richard T. Rives of the Circuit Court of Appeals, came in response to a suit initiated last November by the N.A.A.C.P. It charged that Alabama's Governor and the state board of education were willfully evading the Supreme Court's 1954 school-desegregation rulings. The Montgomery court in effect goes beyond the Supreme Court guideline that integration should proceed with "all deliberate speed," which had provided a convenient loophole for the state to delay compliance with the law. So far, substantive integration...
...also abolish the justice of the peace, rural counterpart of the lower court. Today the J.P. still operates in 35 states, and in most of these his pay comes from the fees and fines extracted from parties brought before him. His duties, says the commission, should be transferred to circuit or district courts...
...Matty Cortes, at Miami Beach's Yacht South Seas, a 171-ft. ship formerly owned by the Woolworth family, is a 38-year veteran of the cocktail circuit, specializes in the sophisticated songs of the 1930s and '40s. Hunched over his piano in the ship's dimly lit, couch-lined salon, he plays with a rolling, lilting style that is guaranteed not to rock the patrons or the boat, which is moored at the 79th Street causeway. The son of a New York Philharmonic percussionist, he says that the chatter of the customers does not bother...
...first letter in his "war" condemned the Committee's contempt proceedings against Arthur Stamler, a noted Chicago cardiologist. The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago has convened a three-judge district court to hear Stamler's constitutional arguments against HUAC...