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...Reno for a four-week course run each summer by the National College of the State Judiciary, seven visiting judges accepted an invitation from Instructor Ronald Fremlin to view local fauna at the New China Club. Two young women who seemed to be inviting companionship struck up a conversation. A bellicose stranger suddenly intervened. "I was with these ladies." he barked, "and I don't like your butting in!" One thing led to another as the barroom tough shoved one of the women from her stool and hit Illinois Judge Robert Dean in the stomach, not once but twice...
William McBride, 25, a shaggy-haired Los Angeles bachelor, lost his fiancée during the lengthy separation. He thinks that they would have broken up eventually anyway, and that the trial merely hastened matters. In any event, intimate companionship was a problem for him. Spouses stayed overnight with married jurors on weekends. Mrs. John Baer, wife of the 61-year-old electrical technician who was considered the most dutiful juror, called her visits to the Ambassador Hotel a "second honeymoon." But unmarried jurors were not officially allowed any company, and McBride had the authorities peering over his shoulder...
...Right. Coming to court daily has become a way of life for most of the courtroom buffs. "Many of the men are widowers," says Richter. "They seek companionship here." "The main thing," adds Morris Asher, 73, a former machine operator, "is that you get up in the morning and have a place to go. If a fellow we know doesn't show up, then we get worried." Some buffs achieve the ultimate: defense attorneys and prosecutors actually seek their opinion, not on legal strategy, but on the reactions to be expected from judges and juries. According to Salvadore Pampinella...
...more, no less. Fogg, said Verne, employed "steamers, railways, carriages, yachts, merchant vessels, sledges, elephants." As far as possible, 66-year-old Circumnavigator Perelman will confine himself to such modes in following Fogg's itinerary. In place of Fogg's famed manservant, Passepartout, Perelman prefers female traveling companionship. Though he has had "five applications for the post from various birds," he says, "I have in fact chosen my secretary." No bet, though. The payoff, like Author Verne's, will be a book...
...There is no Black Panther newspaper in Soledad. For all George Jackson knows he is the only Marxist in America. He must create himself. Just as at this time he practices disciplining his hunger (he goes for weeks eating two slices of bread a day); his need for human companionship (he practices no speaking so that he will be able to bear solitary); his anger, his hope (he has been turned down every year for parole, no matter what his conduct); so also he is sharpening his ideas, making them firm, by himself . You feel his will in his words...