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...court judges, which enabled them to give advice on legal matters as well as retain their $66,100-a-year salaries. The imbroglio was the latest episode in a two-year-long melodrama that had, in the words of one former judge, threatened to make the bankruptcy courts "the laughingstock of this nation." The confusion finally ended last week when Congress passed legislation that sets up a new federal bankruptcy system...
...competitive culture but also by family ties. His father is the founder and chairman of the company, which had revenues last year of $106 million. "If I failed to do as well as or better than the rest of the people in the company, I would end up a laughingstock as an executive," he says. Nohmura spends most of his mornings at his desk in a cubbyhole office. He likes his small space, saying, "I can get almost everything I need without having to stand up every time." There he writes reports and discusses new tent designs with engineers...
...Louisiana was made the laughingstock of the nation," says Lee Frazier, a Democratic state representative from New Orleans. "Laughingstock" may be charitable: the source of embarrassment was a retrograde Louisiana statute, passed only 13 years ago, that stipulated that a person is "nonwhite" if his racial makeup includes more than one thirty-second "Negro blood." Last week Republican Governor David Treen signed a bill, drafted by Frazier, that repeals the 1970 statute and requires the state from now on to accept parents' designation of a child's race. The change is not retroactive, how ever...
What may help White the most is the caliber of his underfunded opposition. Two rivals, Raymond Flynn and Lawrence DiCara '71 are tainted with past or present membership in that laughingstock of Boston politics, the city council, while former state Rep. Melvin King's organization has fewer funds and probably less support than when he ran poorly in 1979. Suffolk County Sherill Dennis J. Kearney and Suffolk Registrar of Probate James Michael Connolly have not yet gained widespread recognition, nor do they have the money to do so Perhaps the strongest credentials belong to Robert R. Kiley, deputy mayor...
...easily understood novelist is back. And forth. In his new book, Kurt Vonnegut once again traverses time and space, filling the pages. With short sentences. And placebo profundities: "To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life." And bromides: "the witching hour," "laughingstock," "dumb luck," "social leper...