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...Yale Law School. He thus opposes legalistic custodial laws that assign orphaned children to their nearest blood relatives. He prefers laws that would "acknowledge the emotional realities that exist," allowing the judge discretion to assign the children to a distant relative or even a close friend who is fond of them. His Yale colleague, Jay Katz, proposes in the case of runaways "a provision for legally approved separation between parents and children. Better to have it over than to maintain a fiction...
...With politicians, however, it is different. Politicians may be more splendid than us in many ways: often as studs, generally as charlatans, frequently as possessors of charisma. They may even show superior intelligence upon occasion. But we never have to worry about a politician's morals. We are fond of them because we know they are our moral inferiors. May I say that George McGovern left me in a state of confusion because he was the only major politician I ever met who felt like my moral superior...
...remotely fond of drama would want Arthur Miller to stop writing plays, but it would have been a blessing if someone-either God or the Devil-had stopped him from indulging in Creation...
...Angeles to Minnesota to visit her mother-in-law, whom she has never met. Patty's husband, before his death in a military-plane crash, had assured her she would like his mother, but the hard, hostile woman (Rosemary Murphy) she finally meets bears little resemblance to his fond descriptions. Patty's only friend at the forbidding family estate is her husband's half-witted sister (Sian Barbara Allen), who babbles incomprehensibly while pressing a newspaper clipping into Patty's palm. Apparently a homicidal rapist is loose (Screenwriter Heims doesn't miss a trick...
...North Cambridge Vietnam Committee last night completed plans for a demonstration to be held today against the second largest defense contractor in Cambridge, Bolt, Beranek and Newman. Inc. (BBN). Demonstrators will gather at 4 p.m. opposite the Fresh Fond shopping center and march to the firm's headquarters at 50 Moulton...