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...Swiss-born jurist, Jean Louis DeLolme, once declared that a British legislature "can do everything except make a woman into a man or a man into a woman." Last week, as angry doctors in the western Canadian province of Saskatchewan went into the second week of their strike against a new, compulsory state medical insurance plan, Premier Woodrow Lloyd's socialist government stoutly refused to give way on its plan. But the emerging question was whether-as happened with Prohibition-any legislation can be effective without the consent of the people it most closely concerns...
Died. William Curtis Bok, 64, longtime Pennsylvania jurist elected to a 21-year term on the state Supreme Court in 1958, a liberal, civic-minded Quaker who, as a scion of the Curtis and Bok publishing dynasty, was considered something of a renegade by his Main Line neighbors because of his New Deal politics; after a long illness; in Philadelphia's suburban Radnor. By his death, Bok, as one of five Curtis trustees, held up the possibility (strongly rumored, but unconfirmed) that Doubleday & Co. was about to buy into the Philadelphia-based magazine empire, in the red last year...
...Mongolian wilderness, Supreme Court Associate Justice William O. Douglas, 62, deplaned in Moscow with a knapsack full of obiter dicta. Noting that the Ulan Bator intelligentsia is "starved for contact with the West" and that "the Russians are doing a wonderful public relations job for themselves" there, the outspoken jurist urged a U.S. counter-push, starting with instant diplomatic recognition...
...called the greatest jurist of his day, a legal eminence worthy of rank with John Marshall and Oliver Wendell Holmes. He was, in fact, a great human. And the real contribution of Judge Learned Hand, who died last week in Manhattan at 89, was less to the body of the law than to its spirit...
Died. Judge Learned Hand, 89, whose incisive opinions made him the most quoted U.S. jurist since Oliver Wendell Holmes; of congestive heart failure; in Manhattan (see THE NATION...