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Manuel Urrutia Lleo, 57, a colorless career jurist from Santiago, gained Castro's admiration 19 months ago by voting to release a group of rebel prisoners on the ground that revolution in Cuba is a constitutional right. Batista forced him into exile; he lived in the New York borough of Queens. He is antiCommunist, pro-U.S. Castro barely knew him before choosing him for the presidency...
Georgia's lawyers and reporters alike walk on tiptoe in the presence of Fulton County Superior Court Judge Durwood T. Pye, a terrible-tempered, robe-twitching jurist whose boiling point is the lowest on the Atlanta bench. Pye once ordered the wholesale arrest of noisy loungers in a corridor outside his courtroom, had to reverse himself when it developed that the loudest noisemaker was a fellow judge, telling jokes at the Coke machine. Last week, mustering a group courage, the Georgia press loudly complained that the autocratic judge had gone...
...Seabury seemed almost an anachronism in the gay, irreverent 1920s. The son, grandson and great-grandson of clergymen, he saw part of life through the stained-glass windows of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He saw another part with the solemn, pince-nezed gaze of a reform-minded lawyer and jurist. The worst of what he saw was symbolized by James John Walker, New York City's twice-elected (1925, 1929) mayor. Jimmy Walker, top hat perched jauntily askew, wisecracked his way through the '20s like a handsome Bacchus, and it was perhaps inevitable that he would...
Peculiarity & Commonality. Upon this understanding of the principle of law stand the A.B.A.'s Rhyne and many advocates of peace through a world rule of law. "Every human community that is regulated by laws and customs," said the second-century-B.C. Roman jurist Gaius, "observes a system of law which in part is peculiar to itself and in part is common to mankind." The peculiarities lie in the forms of laws and their enforcement. But the commonality-on which any system of world law must be built-rests in basic values, in the hunger of mankind for justice...
Died. Wang Chung-hui, 77, jurist, statesman, first Foreign Affairs Minister of the Chinese Nationalist Republic, onetime judge on the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague, World War II Secretary-General of China's Supreme National Defense Council, onetime Chief Justice (appointed 1920) of the Supreme Court of China; after long illness; in Taipei, Formosa. Born in Canton, educated at Peiyang University, Yale University and in Europe, ubiquitous Scholar Wang was author of the standard English translation of the German Civil Code, onetime co-editor of the Journal of the American Bar Association, pen behind the Yueh...