Word: legal-aid
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...LEGAL SERVICES. Old people in need of legal services to protect their rights to housing, Social Security or medical benefits, safeguard their assets and guard against exploitation by the unscrupulous, can usually obtain them through local legal-aid societies, which provide free or low-cost legal guidance. More specialized help is available from the National Council of Senior Citizens, which has its headquarters in Washington, and local Gray Panthers' organizations...
...lines that encompass Iowa State University in Ames. A former Navy pilot in Viet Nam, Harkin drew national attention in 1971 when, as an assistant to a House committee, he released photographs of the "tiger cage" treatment of political prisoners in South Viet Nam. Formerly a legal-aid lawyer, Harkin successfully employed an unusual campaign tactic by spending 27 days on 27 different jobs, ranging from welding to performing a housewife's home work, in order to acquaint himself with voters' concerns. Harkin urged tougher anti-inflation measures, tax reform and better care for the elderly. He readily...
...James Cagney. Facing each other from opposite ends of the state were Pittsburgh Mayor Pete Flaherty, a lanky, blue-eyed charmer with an engaging grin and earnest air, and former state Insurance Commissioner Herbert S. Denenberg, a cocky, abrasive professor whose "Shopper's Guides" to buying insurance, legal-aid and medical services have made him a consumers' hero. In the end, Redford-Flaherty...
...building that houses the law school, located in the Northeastern campus. "The practical experience is invaluable. You really learn all the stuff you're taught in the first year. After working, listening to professors is tough." The range of co-op opportunities is broad: "Some like to work in legal-aid type of projects. Other, like me, who come from a poor background, want to see what a big firm is like." A first-year student planning to work with the Tenants' First Coalition in Cambridge this summer says that she came to Northeastern because "the co-op experience would...
Accordingly, Ford is now a first-year law student at Berkeley. This winter, he was too busy to join the political campaign that elected three blacks to the Berkeley city government. Still, he is active in a black law students' association and plans to do legal-aid work later this year. Choosing his words carefully, Ford speaks of American society as "basically immoral" and sometimes talks of "revolution"?but he does not know what form it could take or see any individual leading it, much less himself. More often he sounds like a future politician: he may return...