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...target was the 22-judge Southern District of New York, which includes Manhattan and is the busiest federal court in the U.S. His solution was pragmatic and to the point. He assigned eleven federal judges from areas as far-flung as California and Tennessee to sit temporarily in New York. Each of the eleven visitors, whose own home courts are relatively up to date, will hear civil jury cases in New York for a month; the whole program will continue for at least two months in an effort to reduce the waiting period for civil cases, which...
...presidential campaign of Senator Eugene McCarthy would seem to be the logical rallying point for Young Dems to begin a reconsolidation of their far-flung membership. Most of the Executive Committee drop-outs left to work for McCarthy through other organizations. Their leaving is indicative of the failure of Young Dems to provide a framework for any kind of politically meaningful activity...
...behind the U.S.'s Bank of America ($19 billion), Chase Manhattan ($15.76 billion) and First National City ($15.2). And it shapes up as an even more formidable financial force when the subsidiary operations of the three partners are included; Barclays Bank, for example, holds a 51% interest in far-flung Barclays Bank D.C.O. (for Dominion, Colonial & Overseas...
...Romans, by and large, adopted Greek styles as their own, became the world's first "antique" collectors by buying Grecian art. Workmen throughout the far-flung empire harked back to Periclean models, though the 2nd century Jupiter found in Belgium is Roman in its compact proportions. The Romans' greatest innovation was the realistic portrait, and their skills are powerfully summarized in a fleshy, glowering face, described by Yale Art Historian Sheldon Nodelman as "by far the most important of the Roman bronzes, one of the most striking pieces in the show." Though the portrait has not been formally...
...Relief. And the conductors? There are not enough good ones to go around. Now that most of them jet off to play musical podiums with the world's far-flung orchestras, they scarcely have time to guide the artistic policy of their own ensembles, plan the programs, select the soloists, learn new works, rehearse and perform-let alone address fund-raising luncheons of the ladies' clubs. The best of today's established conductors are thus tired, aging, or both. The Boston Symphony's Erich Leinsdorf, 55, who has announced that he plans to resign...