Word: laws
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...faceless opponents. These were men who had lived down the street from him when he was a young man. One of the leaders of the National Liberation Front had been to college with him in Paris. Another had been married to a distant cousin. Another had been in a law office of his. Some of these men he trusted; some of them he distrusted. Some of them he had liked; some of them he had disliked...
...Truax had the background and personality-not to mention the foursquare name-to succeed in government. Son of a U.S. Commerce Department official and son-in-law of a California municipal judge, the husky, crew-cut six-footer was graduated with honors from San Jose State College as a political-science major. Three and a half years ago, he landed an executive job with the newly formed Association of Bay Area Governments, a government-funded organization that was pioneering a regional approach to Northern California's problems. As it turned out, ABAC might have been designed to finance...
LAWYERS Mighty Raise For decades, the fate of young lawyers in big law firms was right out of Dickens-a harrowing upward creep from Cratchit-like work weeks of 60 hours, to the office politics of survival, to the great expectations (years hence) of a lucrative partnership. While enduring those early hard times, the country's brightest law graduates dutifully toiled for relatively little. In 1963, the going rate for new associates at top Manhattan firms was only $7,200 a year-and much less in many other cities. But no more. Law students are abuzz with the news...
There was more to it than that. Compounding a general shortage of fledgling lawyers, caused partly by the draft, is the fact that more and more top law graduates are shunning regular practice. Instead, they are working for Government agencies, going into teaching or using their valuable talents in various civil libertarian causes. For many, the new lure of the law is a career devoted to tackling the country's social problems, not protecting private clients. Last year only one-quarter of the editors of the Harvard Law Review went directly into private practice; only 10% plan...
...book, The Church, which came out in Germany last year and will be published in the U.S. next month. In it, he even suggests setting up procedures for recalling ecclesiastics who prove incompetent-including the Pope. Though some Popes have been ousted in the distant past, present canon law contains no provision for deposing a Pope, even if he should become physically or mentally incapacitated. But, writes Kung, "the idea that the Pope is the servant of the church must be extended to include the possibility of the Pope's having to resign or being deposed...