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Attracted to politics at 14, when he served as a page in the Texas legislature Homer worked his way through the University of Texas Law School as a deputy sheriff. He was elected to the state legislature in 1936, later became Travis County district attorney. After a 3½-year wartime stint in Naval intelligence, during which he rose to lieutenant commander, Thornberry opened his own law practice, served on the Austin city council and as mayor pro tem. The nonpaying city post wound up costing him money, for Homer's law clients expected him to fix such things...
...Washingtonians (1961) and refugees from the poll tax (1964). Yet America, a nation obsessed with youth, with nearly half its population under 25, does not let a citizen vote until he is 21.* An 18-year-old can be drafted, and he can be held fully responsible before the law, can even be given the death penalty in some states, but he cannot cast a ballot except in Kentucky and Georgia. An Alaskan can vote at 19, a Hawaiian at 20. Last week Lyndon Johnson moved to enfranchise all the 10 million Americans between...
...common law, 21 is the voting age in most of the English-speaking world. France also makes it 21, Japan and Germany 20, Russia and some Latin American nations 18, Norway and Sweden 23, and Denmark...
...Single Hand." Because he had refused the oath, British law shielded him from crossexamination: a bodyguard of Scotland Yard plainclothesmen flanked him during a six-minute appearance in the witness box at London's Bow Street Magistrates' Court. Then Barrister David Calcutt, acting for the U.S., presented circumstantial evidence against the man whom U.S. authorities identified as Ray. For 90 minutes, Calcutt read into the record depositions and affidavits pointing to him as the rifleman who pulled the trigger in a second-floor bathroom of a shabby Memphis rooming house to kill King...
...Pompidou has spent 24 years as a Gaullist friend and confidant, an adviser in De Gaulle's political triumphs, the editor of his memoirs. In the same years, and with little preparation for any of them, he pursued three remarkably successful careers. Without ever having studied law, he turned in a first-rate jurist's performance when assigned to an administrative court in De Gaulle's postwar government. Without ever having trained as a banker, he attracted the attention of Guy de Rothschild, rose to become chief administrative officer of France's Rothschild Bank...