Word: duking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THURSDAY: Valley of the Dolls. 1967. A movie that makes the average soap opera look like "Last Year at Marienbad." Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, and Sharon (Manson victim) Tate flounder through the slings and arrows of this outrageous melodrama like wounded animals. Worst movie of the sixties award. CH. 7. 9 p.m. Color...
Tired Eyes. Duke had just finished three years of unpaid work on the case of James Miller, a Connecticut hairdresser convicted of participation in a narcotics smuggling ring. Convinced that Miller had been wrongly identified by the key witness, Duke finally won a reversal when he showed that the witness had been secretly questioned under hypnosis during which supporting details of his identification could have been suggested...
...colleagues do not consider me a good role model," says Duke, 39, who favors red velvet suits and wears his blond hair over the collar. "They say I do not know how to lose." Now Duke is planning how to win an acquittal at Geraway's new trial. He hopes the trial comes during the summer, lest it interrupt his classes. Every so often, says the tenured professor, "my dean and I have a little talk, and since I have never done the outside writing that is expected, he wants to know what I am doing with my time...
Geraway, who also claims to be a victim of mistaken identity, wrote to Duke, but his letter was read by tired eyes. "When I finished the Miller case," Duke recalls, "I said I would never get involved in anything like it again. I worked an average of 30 hours a week on that one." He and Geraway did begin a correspondence, however, and a year later, when Geraway wrote that he had "held on to rationality as long as I could," Duke visited him at Walpole. Once he read the trial transcript, Duke was hooked. "I wish the hell...
...Duke's zeal is unusual in that he has spent $3,000 of his own on the Geraway case; moreover, he has little practical experience in criminal matters. A onetime clerk to Justice William O. Douglas, Duke was a tax specialist when he joined the Yale faculty in 1960. There his interests changed. "Who cares whether a corporation pays X dollars or Y dollars?" asks Duke now. "Economists do not even agree on who bears the burden of a corporate tax, so how can you get excited when you can't even tell what people are ultimately paying...