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INTERNATIONAL radicalism has lost its spiritual godfather. Bertrand Arthur William Russell, the third Earl Russell, is dead...
...advocate in Florida, and when the Republicans took office, Carswell was named a U.S. Attorney. He became a Republican, and in 1958 Eisenhower appointed him a federal district judge. Last spring, when Nixon and Attorney General Mitchell were shopping for a Chief Justice to replace Earl Warren, Carswell figured prominently among the contenders. After Warren Burger was named, Carswell was elevated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth District. Now, after serving in that post for only six months, he will very likely become the ninth and youngest member of the Supreme Court...
When David Earl Gutknecht laid his draft card at the feet of a federal marshal in Minneapolis during a Viet Nam War protest in 1967, Selective Service Director Lieut. General Lewis B. Hershey was not amused. After similar acts of defiance by other potential draftees, Hershey sent a memorandum encouraging local draft boards to discipline the protesters by accelerating their inductions as rapidly as Selective Service regulations would permit. Thereupon Gutknecht's draft board declared him "delinquent";* six days later he was jumped ahead of nondelinquent registrants and ordered drafted. He refused to submit and was convicted and sentenced...
ROBERT SOUTHWELL, another Jesuit, whose poems were admired by Ben Jonson, executed after prolonged torture. PHILIP HOWARD, Earl of Arundel and forefather of the present Duke of Norfolk, who was caught trying to escape to France. He died after ten years of privation in the Tower of London, accused of praying for the success of the Spanish Armada...
...Moral Issues. Lawyer-agents may be cannily attempting to tout their talents without actually violating the rule against lawyers advertising their services. A more difficult question is whether a lawyer's stake in such contracts affects his conduct of the defense. Consider the case of James Earl Ray, who now claims that he was denied effective counsel because of his lawyers' interests in a book about him. His first lawyer, Arthur Hanes, made a deal with Ray and Author William Bradford Huie that provided for articles and a book about Ray by Huie. To cover mounting legal bills...