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...isolate landlocked Zambia from its markets and to cut off electrical power in the rich Zambian copper fields around Ndola. Rhodesians control the turbines and generators of the giant Kariba Dam on the Zambezi River, which forms the border between the two countries. Completed in 1960 under the now defunct Central African Federation, Kariba supplies both Zambia and Rhodesia with power, ties them together like sullen Siamese twins. For two weeks Kaunda has demanded that Britain at least send troops to "neutralize" the Kariba power station on the Rhodesian side of the river, arguing that Smith's soldiers would...
...give up entirely by declaring that all published material is protected by the First Amendment unless it creates a "clear and present danger" of antisocial conduct. The A.C.L.U. makes its point in the case of Publisher Ralph Ginzburg, who got a five-year rap for circulating the now defunct magazines Eros and Liaison and a so-called psychological study titled The Housewife's Handbook on Selective Promiscuity. While Eros gets high marks from assorted literary eminences, the court is unlikely to be edified by Ginzburg's gamier products, which he mailed from Middlesex, N.J., having failed...
...possible for a resident to gain admission to the bar without an examination. Morrissey, then 23, had already dropped out of law school in Massachusetts, had a try at the bar exam nonetheless, and failed it. In Athens, Morrissey obtained a Georgia diploma from a two-man outfit, now defunct, called the Southern Law School. Jenner called it a "diploma mill." Armed with this credential and testimonials from both of his teachers, Morrissey was admitted to practice before superior court in Clarke County on Sept. 7, 1933. The next day he went to Atlanta, where he won admittance...
...diploma" and had stated that he was a resident of Georgia when he was admitted to practice there in 1933. The nominee later admitted that he went to Georgia in 1933 and attempted to begin a practice after a three-month cram course at Southern Law School--a now-defunct institution consisting at that time of a three-man faculty...
...never rests; she takes as many as 50 phone calls a day, goes to as many as six parties an evening, all in the interest of turning out six columns a week for 60 newspapers. Her fame has been growing ever since 1963, when she moved from the defunct New York Daily Mirror to the New York Journal-American, where she replaced Cholly Knickerbocker, who had been indicted by the U.S. for failing to register as an agent of the Dominican Republic...