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MICHAEL E. FRANKEL...
...luck. In a sprightly opinion, U.S. District Judge Marvin Frankel sympathized with Lamont but dismissed his suit. The state's revenue-raising technique "may not be the most inspired kind of government function," said Frankel, but "the information sold is not vital or intimate. It is, moreover, in the category of 'public records,' available to anyone upon demand." The court really ought not to intrude in this area, he went on, since "there is no invidious discrimination, no problem of a wrong unreachable at the polls, no suggestion of an affliction confined to a relatively helpless minority...
...strong in jumping. Galliers, Skip Hare, and John Avault swept nearly every meet in both the long and triple jumps. Jim Coleman (6 ft. 3 in.) and Bill McBride (6 ft.) were consistent point getters in the high jump, and between them won in all but one meet. Paul Frankel scored well in the pole vault...
...White House press conference. After discussing the President's views on the Common Market, Negotiator Bill Roth announced that the session was for "background only." Washington Post Reporter Carroll Kilpatrick asked why. "It's background information," said Press Secretary George Christian. "I'm sorry," Timesman Max Frankel broke in, "but if you're going to give me information on that basis, I'm authorized by my editors to say that the White House has no comment on this." So threatened, Roth put most of what he said on the record...
That much disposed of, the judge proceeded to his lecture on bureaucracy. A little homework by the Customs Department on the language and history of the statute that gives it its authority would have been a good idea, Frankel implied. Action, he pointed out dryly, is supposed to be taken "upon the seizure" of a book. "The word 'upon' is defined in the dictionary as meaning 'with little or no interval after.' While it is too late in the day to suppose that the dictionary gives decisive clues to the meaning of statutes," the history...