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...hundreds of cases-often without a fee-in defense of narcotics addicts, civil liberties and tenants' rights. Last summer he charged down to Mississippi as a Freedom Rider; he is still out on $500 bond after a breach-of-peace arrest. His fellow assemblymen, both Democratic and Republican, groan pointedly when Lane rises to deliver one of his long and emotional speeches. He clearly hopes to make his assault against Carlino a springboard for a try this year for Congress...
...informal and candid talk, they hear the case for one man against another, discuss the rising or falling of this or that reputation, groan at hearing some singer's or comedian's name suggested once again, and debate the cresting of popular interest in what goes on off Broadway or inside Berlin...
While many businessmen groan about "profitless prosperity," one manufacturer of everything from manure spreaders to nose cones has reversed the trend: profits are rising despite slipping sales at New York's Avco Corp. Last week Chairman Kendrick R. Wilson, 48, a onetime Wall Streeter told a luncheon of securities analysts that Avco's earnings for the first nine months of its fiscal year jumped 20% to $8,800,000, though sales slumped 3% to $234 million. As soon as Wilson sat down, his good friend, President James R. Kerr, 44, got up and explained how Avco turned...
...very sinister; Coop gives testimony that convicts a business colleague of murder and then, with a stolen moneybag still not found, begins throwing pound notes around. When his wife asks where the cash came from, he mumbles something about the stock market and adds, as cellos groan ominously in what ought to be called the film's foreground music, "I made a killing...
...Brazilian doctor and surgeon for over 40 years, agrees: 'Moral insanity, sexual perversions, repression, inferiority complexes, petty crimes-these often follow in the wake of blood transfusion.' " And when Knorr noted that doctors were experimenting with the transfusion of blood from cadavers (TIME, May 26), a horrified groan filled the stadium...