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...benefits of wealth, position and a Western European education. English was his first language, taught by an English nanny. French and Russian were learned, as he said, "at my nurses' knees-two nurses, four knees." His mother encouraged his early poetic efforts, and his father, a distinguished liberal jurist during the final reactionary years of imperial Russia, set an example of scholarship and courage...
...though it held him prisoner, the government found it difficult to bring him to trial. In Turin, Curcio and 52 others faced charges of armed insurrection (maximum penalty: life imprisonment). The Red Brigades responded by assassinating a prominent jurist; the trial was thereupon postponed. When the distinguished septuagenarian president of the Turin bar asked to aid in Curcio's defense, he was shot to death near his office. Curcio, who demanded the right to conduct his own defense, declared that the lawyer was a "collaborationist of the regime" and had been "executed." As the Turin trial was rescheduled...
...including one prohibiting mandatory Bible reading in public schools, and another forbidding state criminal prosecutors to use evidence seized during illegal searches. To avoid conflict-of-interest charges, he retired from the court in 1967 when his son Ramsey was appointed Attorney General, but remained an active circuit-riding jurist, the first judge to sit in all eleven U.S. Courts of Appeals...
Candidate for Attorney General . . . As a circuit-court judge on U.S. Court of Appeals is ranking woman jurist in the U.S. . . . Age 51 . . . Born in Denver . . . Graduated from University of New Mexico and Stanford Law . . . For ten years practiced law with her husband in Los Angeles . . . Was special consultant to California attorney general on Colorado River litigation . . . Was appointed to Los Angeles County Superior Court in 1961, to California Court of Appeals in 1966, and in 1968 to her current assignment-one that takes her from Los Angeles through nine states (including Hawaii and Alaska) and Guam . . . Has generally liberal...
...government has severely curtailed the discretion of Sweden's capitalists in using their wealth and managing their businesses. Observes Stockholm University Jurist Gustaf Lindencrona: "As long as you use your money to raise productivity, the government won't do anything against it. But if people want to consume their money, the government will keep them from doing it." The aim has been to foster what the Social Democrats call "social" rather than "antisocial" uses of ownership. This will be furthered by legislation that takes effect next year, encouraging all management decisions to be subject to collective bargaining with...