Word: laws
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While other correspondents were counting delegates, Chicago Daily News Columnist Mike Royko was tallying the prostitutes. Despite the Republican Party's dedication to law and order, said Royko, only one of the girls had been pinched, legally. Said an aide to the Miami Beach police chief: "We have not had a single complaint, so their service must be satisfactory." Agnes Ash of Women's Wear Daily noted the plight of Ben Novack, owner of the Hotel Fontainebleau. "The Republicans aren't spending any money," he groused. "I'm not making a dime out of this convention...
...conventioners. Maxine Cheshire of the Washington Post reported that Miami's hairdressers were tearing their hair over the fact that none of the leading candidates' wives had patronized their establishments. If they brought along their own stylists, the Miamians fumed, they could be in trouble with the law because Florida forbids hairdressers to operate without a state license. Thomas Winship, editor of the Boston Globe, visited a makeup specialist who discussed the candidates' facial difficulties. Nixon, she said, had the most. "He has a hairline problem, greying sideburns, heavy shadows in the eye sockets, a black beard...
Once a Year. Recognizing the importance of the issue, a number of interested bystanders-among them the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund, the Justice Department, and a group of 30 of the nation's top law firms-filed briefs in Sobol's support. They were also speaking for all the lonely Negroes in remote Southern jailhouses, the people for whom the presence of lawyers like Sobol has often meant the difference between life and death. Early in the civil rights movement, Southern lawyers tacitly accepted visiting lawyers. Few local white lawyers wanted to defend Negroes anyway...
...Attorney Richard B. Sobol to help defend Gary Duncan, a Negro boat captain accused of cruelty to juveniles in Plaquemines Parish, La. To handle Duncan's case and to aid other Southern Negroes, Sobol gave up a comfortable $24,000-a-year post with a top Washington, D.C., law firm and joined a group of attorneys who are serving the civil rights movement...
...finding local attorneys, they must be permitted to retain out-of-state lawyers. And in federal court, Sobol's first witness gave stark testimony about how difficult it is for a local attorney to represent a Negro. New Orleans Lawyer Lolis Elie, himself a Negro, told how his law office was bombed two years ago. Then he recalled the greeting he received in one courtroom. Said Judge (now U.S. Representative) John Rarick upon Erie's arrival: "I didn't know they let you coons practice law...