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...entitled your story describing Julius Hobson's one-man campaign against injustice and discrimination "A Last Angry Man" [Dec. 4]. Perhaps it would have been more appropriately titled "At Last! An Angry...
...great-uncle and adoptive father, Julius Caesar, has had a far better press: well-publicized conquests, a dramatic assassination, a sympathetic portrait by one William Shakespeare. Yet historians generally agree that Caesar's lesser-known nephew and heir, Gaius Octavius Caesar-later to be called Augustus-was in many ways a greater man. His conquests endured longer than those of Napoleon and Alexander; the imperial system he painfully built took five centuries to decay; the Pax Romana he warred to achieve was one of the longest periods of relative peace that history has ever known. The man himself, however...
After examining some 22,000 pages of trial transcripts, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit severely scolded the presiding judge, Julius J. Hoffman, 76, who is on senior status on the district court and therefore now carries a reduced case load. The court ruled that Judge Hoffman had not only made numerous legal errors but had biased the jury by repeatedly making sarcastic remarks about the defendants or their lawyers. Said the opinion: "The demeanor of the judge and prosecutors would require reversal [even] if other errors did not." The court thus overturned the convictions of Rennie...
...many ways Julius Hobson is an anomaly among civil rights activists. He did not come out of the church, the poverty program, labor or politics. He has a reputation for being abrasive, even to those who side with him. He is an avowed Marxist and atheist in Washington, D.C., which he describes as a "Baptist, Methodist town." In the mid-'60s he was kicked out of the Congress of Racial Equality because he did not believe in its nonviolent strategy. He has frequently acted alone, and once admitted to friends that he could hold all of his meetings...
...probably done more than any other man, black or white, to bring about positive change in Washington, particularly in public school integration and civilian hiring practices. Even his enemies-and they are legion-will admit that. But then, they will not have to endure his bumptious assaults much longer. Julius Hobson, 50, is dying of bone cancer...