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...provides cards for the indigent that entitle them to consult private lawyers at regulated fees of $16 per hour, but not more than $300 per case. Of 86 attorney-client conferences, 57 were concerned with divorce actions. The others dealt with such items as bankruptcies, real estate matters, landlord-tenant problems and support and custody cases...
...Absentee Landlord? Fighting was what Wilson had done all week. About the only place he did not have to do battle was the White House, where President Johnson listened attentively to the Prime Minister's explanation of his economic first-aid measures. Though Wilson neither asked for nor received any promises of U.S. financial support, it was clear that he still had excellent rapport with the President. Yet even the trip to Washington exposed the Prime Minister to fresh criticism at home. "The nation is becoming accustomed to waving farewell to Mr. Wilson just as things get uncomfortable," declared...
...news paper could envy. While covering the death of a woman who had just been released from a city hospital, a WDSU reporter decided to check on the home where she had been living, found that it had been condemned as unfit for human habitation, and that the landlord was a member of the mayor's committee on housing. A WDSU team then toted their cameras to the landlord's other properties, put so much heat on him that he lost his city job. Last year WDSU staffers visited a new, all-white private school supported by tuition...
...Italy, he expressed his nobility in "the noble passion of lust." He also had an audience with Pope Clement XIII ("He looked jolly landlord and smiled") and charmed Lord Mountstuart, the 20-year-old son of Lord Bute, the favorite of King George HI. It was Boswell's big chance for a career at court, and he muffed it. He took Mountstuart to a whorehouse, brought him home severely plagued by Venus, was dismissed in disgrace from milord's retinue...
Writing prose as mauve as he does, it's no wonder that Novelist Irving Stone, 62, is salting away some of the profits from his biographical fiction against the day when his muse gets too flushed to continue. Now he's the proud landlord of a new $210,000 U.S. Post Office building in Sacramento, Calif., a fairly common circumstance these days, with the Post Office Department leasing many of its stations. The investment will enrich his royalty pile by $15,000 a year. Cracked Assistant Postmaster Gene Gibham, "If something goes wrong with the plumbing...