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...working liberal, Mondale made a name for himself outside Minnesota by his part in the case of Clarence Earl Gideon, subject of New York Timesman Anthony Lewis' excellent book. Gideon's Trumpet. Gideon, an impoverished Florida convict, based an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court on the ground that he could not afford counsel, in effect asked the court to extend to state courts the federal requirement that indigent felons have a right to free counsel. Florida's attorney general, in fighting the Gideon case, wrote the attorneys general of every other state asking them to write...
...Negroes are disenfranchised. . .lynched. . .in peonage and on convict farms in the South. . .Jim Crowed...
When the scientists swam under water to collect fish samples, they found hordes of parrot fish, surgeonfish and goatfish, and school after school of brightly striped convict fish; significantly, none of them appeared altered by radioactivity. A few species, however, did not come through so well. The coconut crab, once a delicacy of the atolls, is now inedible because it has retained such a high level of strontium 90. The reason is that when the crab molts, it eats its old shell for the mineral content and so reabsorbs its radioactivity...
...appointed by the Supreme Court to represent Florida Convict Clarence Earl Gideon in his milestone battle to establish that any man who faces trial but cannot afford to pay a lawyer is entitled to counsel, even in state courts, for anything beyond a petty offense...
...gallery of standard evils--hatred, social injustice, fate, racial prejudice. Blackstone, a gentle Negro heavyweight, can't kick the habit of goodness in spite of the suffering whites inflict on his race. Tiger, the blind man who wishes he were "better dreamed," and Fancy Dan, an embittered ex-convict, take their knocks with less dignity. "A little love somewhere is better," counsels Saroyan; "too much hate melts the bones, makes me cry." His scandalized commentary serves passably as a vehicle for the dramatic skills of Hopson, Jerome Raphael, Lazaro Perez, and John Karlen, if it does little else...