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...judges ruled, however minor his actual proven crimes. More than that, wrote Chief Judge Shimon Agranat, a Louisville, Ky. native, in the 83-page precedent-setting decision, "the particular phenomenon of organized crime as it has developed in the U.S. has not yet struck root here in Israel. Heaven forbid that we should encourage opening a door...
South Africa is finding itself hard put these days to keep its sporting citizens and their money at home. Apartheid laws forbid both miscegenation and public socializing between the races within the republic. Every kind of gambling except horse racing is banned. Even Playboy magazine is prohibited from sale or distribution under the Obscene Publications Act. The natural result of such strictures is that more and more South Africans are beating a path to three adjoining black states for fun and games...
...strict conditions that would limit the ability of the institutions to execute their own trades. The SEC would allow brokerage-house affiliates of the institutions to join exchanges only if four-fifths of their business came from the public rather than from the parent institutions. The Moss subcommittee would forbid institutions that joined exchanges from handling any of their own business at all. What the subcommittee wanted to avoid was "devilish bookkeeping" practices that might arise as institutions merged with brokerage houses...
...would be an inquiry. They would find traces of bullets and rockets. In this area only Morocco has F-5s. Can you imagine the international scandal? Piracy in midair against a chief of state?" Then, to put the matter firmly out of hand, the King added: "Oufkir, I absolutely forbid this business...
...self-perpetuating trust" that favors "a small, silk-stocking, knickerbocker, split-fee club of inept commercial lawyers," and discriminates against "far more capable young lawyers who are not yet involved with the Establishment." To support his contention, Belli cites the fact that although the A.B.A. canons of ethics forbid lawyers to advertise, the A.B.A. has permitted firms and individual lawyers to take ads in any approved law list; Martindale-Hubbell is the only such approved list that bestows ratings. All of this, says Belli, violates antitrust rules and defames outsiders...