Word: district
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PREMIERE (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "Higher and Higher, Attorneys at Law." Dustin Hoffman, star of the motion picture The Graduate, plays a young district attorney prosecuting a young man on a homicide charge...
...political corruption as Boston or New York, he has maintained a pristine record of personal honesty. Yet, like any other expert monarch, he has always known where and how to tolerate corruption within his realm. The son of a sheet-metal worker, Daley grew up in the gritty district of Bridgeport, where he continues to live in a modest bungalow. After starting out as a secretary to the city council at 25, Daley scrambled upward through the party ranks. Hence his understanding of Chicago's muscles and nerves is deeply intuitive. But it is growing archaic, as the mayor...
...government, and review all laws, decrees and administrative decisions. Most important, the Supreme Court will appoint all lower-court judges; the positions will no longer be political plums to be awarded by executive whim. Plans call for legally trained justices of the peace to be placed in every district, bringing the law to the province level for the first time...
...district court found that St. Petersburg police assignments were not unreasonable, arbitrary or unconstitutional. Racial classification of the city's cops, said the court, was only a matter of police efficiency. In blunt and unequivocal language, the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has now reversed that decision. Said Judge John Minor Wisdom: "If, police efficiency were an end in itself, the police would be free to put an accused on the rack. Police efficiency must yield to constitutional rights...
...Welfare to sue Bishop under the 1967 Clean Air Act. The smell of the processing plant, they complained, "deprives the people of life's normal pleasures." Urging that the suit be dismissed, Bishop contended that this was local activity and not a matter for federal control. The U.S. District Court of Maryland disagreed: "Malodorous pollution that adversely affects business conditions and property values clearly interferes with interstate commerce...