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...observation might do credit to the most radical of ex-convicts and criminal lawyers. Instead, it is the product of thoughtful reflection by U.S. District Court Judge Marvin Frankel. After seven years on the federal bench in New York City, Frankel found himself appalled by "the unbridled power of the sentencers [including himself] to be arbitrary and discriminatory." He considered the problem in his off-the-bench time, then produced an informative monograph closely analyzing what is wrong with the current approach and suggesting what can be done to repair it. Published last month, Criminal Sentences/Law Without Order (Hill & Wang...
...policeman but also faces locked doors, and must identify himself over an intercom before he is allowed to enter. In a European school for 1,500 Jewish children, security men have joined the faculty this term as coaches or "assistant administrators." "It's like the blitz," comments William Frankel, editor of London's Jewish Chronicle. "The abnormal has once again become normal...
...real estate. The bureau chief in Washington supervises 39 reporters, who turn out a huge daily news file averaging 15,000 words that is read with respect in high places all over the world. Last week the Times announced two unusual appointments to those posts: Washington Bureau Chief Max Frankel will succeed Daniel Schwarz early next year when Schwarz retires as Sunday editor, and E. (for Elbert) Clifton Daniel, who now holds the largely honorific title of associate editor, will replace Frankel...
Trade gossip had it that Times Managing Editor A.M. Rosenthal wanted the Sunday spot for his close friend Arthur Gelb, now metropolitan editor. But top management has in recent years preferred some separation between the daily and Sunday operations, and Rosenthal quickly hailed Frankel, 42, as "the best man for the job." An enterprising, thoughtful reporter who served as a foreign and White House correspondent before taking over the Washington bureau in 1968, Frankel was clearly marked for higher things. But the appointment of a political specialist to the primarily cultural Sunday job occasioned mild surprise...
...Near "Fatahland," where the borders of Israel, Lebanon and Syria converge and Palestinian guerrillas are still active, highway signs include notices that TRAVELING AT NIGHT is FORBIDDEN. In the farming village of Metulla, which has lost two men killed and five wounded in fedayeen attacks from Lebanon, Mayor Assaf Frankel wistfully said: "I hope it doesn't start all over again." His eyes show that he does not have much hope...