Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...usually an impartial figure who sits above the battle. What happens when a group of judges doff their robes and themselves seek relief in the courts? It does not occur often, but just such a case arose in Michigan this year when the 27 judges of the Third Circuit Court brought a suit against Wayne County. They claimed that the county was illegally denying them enough clerks and probation officers to handle the heavy traffic in their circuit, which includes Detroit...
...judges were all litigants, who would preside over their case? The State Supreme Court appointed Judge William John Beer of the neighboring Sixth Circuit. To represent them, the judges hired a Detroit law firm. This vas one case, however, in which the attorneys clearly benefited from the advice of their clients. The plaintiffs' 50-page brief was dazzling in its logic and citations from past decisions...
...N.L.F. Central Committee and vice president of the South Viet Nam Woman's Liberation Union. A lifelong revolutionary who was first jailed by the French in 1950 for leading a demonstration against a U.S. arms shipment, Madame Binh is a well-traveled veteran of the Communist diplomatic circuit. She has represented the N.L.F. at conferences in Moscow, Peking and Cairo, and at a congress of the Women's Union of France in Paris earlier this year. Trim and articulate, her black hair swept back, Madame Binh has skillfully smiled her way through receptions and carefully stuck...
...Herve Al-phand, former French Ambassador to the U.S. and now secretary-general of the French foreign office. She has attended East bloc receptions, called on the Algerians, Cubans and Cambodians, held teas for leading French Communist women, and visited pro-Communist student organizations. Wherever she goes on this circuit, Madame Binh monotonously hammers her theme: the N.L.F. is the "principal force" in South Viet Nam because it represents four-fifths of the land area of South Viet Nam, and President Thieu's government "represents no one." (According to allied figures, the Viet Cong control only 15.3% of South...
...Michael Gill, senior resident of Whitman Hall who originated the idea, took the bus on a trial run at 7 p.m. last Tuesday. The bus made a complete circuit, including stops, in less time than will be necessary in order to stay on schedule...