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...John T. Downey, who prepared for Harvard Law School by spending 21 years in a Chinese prison, graduated from the school last spring and now lives quietly as a small-town lawyer...
Shot down while flying over the People's Republic as an agent of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 1952, Downey is now busy learning the ins and outs of "general practice" law, he said last week, and shunning publicity...
...YORK. Second District-Incumbent Thomas Downey (D) v. Peter Co-halan (R-Conservative): Downey, 27. youngest member of Congress, is aging fast. Fifth District-Allard Lowenstein (D-Liberal) v. Incumbent John Wydler (R-Conservative): Lowenstein is a long-shot in this Republican stronghold...
...paying instructors $1300 for their services. But the program cannot attempt to attract the working women of the area--the women who were at the heart of the early fellowship program--without financial aid for those who cannot meet the costs. "There is not too much scholarship money," says Downey, who was herself a seminar participant in the '60s. "There's a little, with some $50 and $75 scholarships and then an installment plan for payment of the remainder. We've written thousands of letters asking for funds for scholarship aid, but there is no money," she whimpers...
Even without that resource, the seminar has created two new time shifts for seminar offerings, "in order to help out working women who can get some release time," Downey says. But despite changes like that, and new services like a counseling program, Downey stresses that the program has not lost its original purpose as it has expanded--the courses are taught now, as they were 25 years ago, at the level of college seniors or first year graduate students, and it has even retained the initial structure of two-hour courses with limited enrollment...