Word: law
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...Law schools ought to devote far more time to giving their students practical experience in how to deal with "raw facts and real-life problems." Burger contends that law schools are producing graduates who are "well-trained to write a fine appellate brief but not trained to recognize concealed usury in the sale of a television set on installments." Rare is the graduate, he argues, "who knows how to ask questions - simple, single questions, one at a time, in order to develop facts in evidence either in interviewing a witness or examining him in a courtroom." As an example...
...A.B.A. should initiate a "comprehensive and profound examination" of the penal system, which would cover everything from prison conditions to parole and probation. Claiming that U.S. law offers the accused the world's most comprehensive system of trials, retrials, appeals and post-conviction reviews, Burger said: "If I were sure-and I am not sure either way-that all this was good for the accused in the large and long-range sense that it helps him, I would be enthusiastically in favor of all of it." Among the rehabilitation techniques that the Chief Justice believes should be thoroughly studied...
Moral Sense. As a Negro convict in Mississippi, Arthur could look forward to little more than sympathy, and not much of that. But the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, composed mostly of young attorneys from the North, brought a damage suit in the U.S. District Court in Greenwood. They did not bother to serve a summons on Williams, who by then was out of prison and living in Chicago. Instead, they served ten white officials, including Leflore County Sheriff John Arterbury, superintendent of the prison farm at the time of the shooting...
...Lawyers' Committee found no other case in which a Negro was awarded damages from a white law officer in Mississippi. "It's not going to bring back my sight," said Arthur, who now hopes to go into the grocery business, "but it will help." In any case, he may have to wait some time to collect, since Arterbury plans an appeal...
Died. William Goetz, 66, movie producer and studio executive; in Los Angeles. A son-in-law of Movie Tycoon Louis B. Mayer, Goetz helped found both 20th Century-Fox and Universal-International before striking out on his own in 1954. His hits included Sayonara, The Song of Bernadette, Winchester '73, and he was among the first with the-now common practice-idea of giving top stars a percentage of the profits from their pictures...