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From Emile Zola's "J'Accuse" on behalf of Alfred Dreyfus to Columnist William F. Buckley's decade-long effort to free convicted Murderer Edgar Smith, there has been a long history of laymen trying to overturn what they see as injustice wrought by police, lawyers and judges. Undoing the law's due process is an enormously difficult task. But last week two such efforts by laymen were gathering momentum and one was finally triumphant...
Professional money managers disagree. They point out that some investment funds already exist-the Dreyfus Third Century Fund is one-that carefully screen polluters out of their holdings. On the other hand, environmental groups could avoid the issue entirely as Friends of the Earth does: FOE sells contributions of stocks and bonds immediately and puts the proceeds to work fighting polluters...
...radial paralysis; placing a horse in a sling often impairs circulation and waste elimination and could cause death; finally, putting a horse on a rubber raft in a pool, so that kicking off a cast becomes impossible, is still an experimental technique. At 'week's end Jack Dreyfus, chairman of the board of the New York racing association, said, "The inadequacy of knowing what to do was the problem. It happened to strike an area of incompetence in the whole industry." Meantime, Ruffian had been buried quietly at Belmont, mourned by millions who knew little of racing...
...much of his life Herzl was strangely numb to evidences of antiSemitism. The Zionistic notion was merely an unworked plot until the Dreyfus trial. Then, as Paris correspondent for a Viennese paper, Herzl suddenly saw that the defendant was emblematic of his people. Captain Dreyfus might assume the insignia, the language, the official role, but in the end he would be betrayed and reviled. Dreyfusards marched in an honorable cause, wrote the young Herzl, but one "which-let us not delude ourselves-is a lost...
...Barney's and Chez Dreyfus waiters bring sugar packets to the table only with the coffee. Managers in both restaurants said yesterday they took the action several weeks ago "to discourage thefts...