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...commuter operation earned $706,000 in 1964. Heineman has achieved this unique success by raising fares, offering faster and more frequent service to attract riders during off-hours, and borrowing from Metropolitan Life to modernize the line. The North Western's $50 million fleet of air-conditioned, double-decker commuter trains carried 909,000 more passengers last year than in 1963, and Heineman is using newspaper and radio advertising to win even more...
...last thing Olympic visitors will want to do. The city itself offers more action and interaction than any other major conurbation outside New York. There are 1,052 pachinko parlors constantly pocking the air with the jangle of small metal pinballs, 527 movie houses, 30 bowling alleys, a triple-decker golf driving range near the Tokyo Tower, four full-scale symphony orchestras, three opera companies, three baseball parks (drawing as many as 45,000 spectators a night) and of course there is the Kabuki Theater. There is also Tokyo's industry to be seen-the vast Honda plant that...
...last year with $2,300,000 from the Ford Foundation. Last month Ford gave it another $2,000,000, which amounted to an openhanded vote of confidence in the project's staff and distinguished new director, the U.S. Army's recently retired Judge Advocate General Charles L. Decker (West Point '31, Georgetown...
...crack criminal defender as well as prosecutor, Director Decker, who was founder of the Army's Judge Advocate General School and of the nation's first independent military judiciary, will siphon much of his Ford Foundation money into model defender agencies in Boston, New Haven, Philadelphia and Washington-"grey area" cities with slum-bred legal problems. Matching funds will go to other cities and counties willing eventually to pay the full bill for embryo defender agencies. Since 90% of court-appointed lawyers are unskilled in criminal law, Project Defender will also support more law-school criminal courses...
Today, 90% of U.S. felony defendants are found guilty. Only a sentimentalist would argue that most of them are really innocent. But thoughtful lawyers agree that U.S. criminal justice has been "rationed" all too long. As Director Decker sees it, public defenders should now face public prosecutors in every county in the land, guaranteeing "an even match in .our adversary system of trial procedures...