Word: gideons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dean Kilbridge's statement reprinted in The Crimson, "Critics are skilled, professional architects and out of Hosken's league," is contrary to fact and may be libelous according to my lawyers. Wellknown architectural critics, for instance, Mumford, Gideon, Ada Louis Huxtable (N.Y. Times), Wolf von Eckhart (Washington Post) don't have architectural degrees and have never practiced architecture at all. But since Dean Kilbridge makes value judgments about critics' qualifications and architectural qualifications one must ask: as a nonarchitect and with not published work as a critic is he qualified to make any judgments of this kind...
...twelfth game was a shocker of a different sort. For the first 16 moves, Fischer and Spassky duplicated a game played in 1936 between World Champion José Capablanca and Swedish Grand Master Gideon Stahlberg. Then Spassky, playing black, deviated and skillfully held off Fischer until both players agreed to call the game a draw after 55 moves. Before the 13th game, Fischer began complaining about the air-conditioning and the autograph hounds. Because of what he called "excessive spectator noise" in the playing hall, he demanded that the first seven rows of seats be left empty. Fischer, the Bobby...
...landmark Gideon decision of 1963, the Supreme Court proclaimed that any indigent person accused of a felony has a right to free counsel. Two years later, the court had a chance to extend this right to people accused of misdemeanors, but for unspecified reasons it chose to pass up the case. If the Warren Court feared to tread such ground, could the more cautious Burger Court be expected to rush in? Last week it did just that-unanimously. From now on, said Justice Douglas, "no person may be imprisoned for any offense unless he was represented by counsel...
...impact will be far greater than that of the Gideon decision. Only 338,000 persons were charged with felonies during one recent year cited by the court. In contrast, said Douglas, "it is estimated that there are annually between 4,000,000 and 5,000,000 court cases involving misdemeanors," not counting traffic infractions. Misdemeanors vary from state to state, ranging from spitting on the sidewalk to public drunkenness to carrying a concealed weapon -the crime for which a Florida indigent named Jon Richard Argersinger was convicted (it was his trial without counsel that led to the court ruling). Some...
Since Judge Gideon J. Tucker of New York approvingly cited that hyperbolic appraisal 105 years ago, state legislatures in the U.S. have improved. The director of a new study released last week concluded that "corruption is less widespread than we had thought; not many votes are bought for cash." Otherwise, the most comprehensive inquiry ever made of the lawmaking process at state level was bearish. Though considerable differences turned up between the best and worst bodies, many were judged to be inept, understaffed, poorly paid and in "disarray." The study has special relevance now because of the Administration...