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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other potential candidates see a federal judgeship less as a prestigious and challenging job than as very hard work for low pay. Senator Charles Percy has privately remarked that he has had to offer, the job to ten people just to get one. Says U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Edward Allen Tamm: "Federal judges are working harder than they ever did in private practice, but they never get their heads above water." Worn down by the work load, comparing their salaries ($54,500 to $57,500) with the six-figure incomes of really successful lawyers, a discouraging number of federal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judging the Judges | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...Ukrainian Jewish immigrant to the U.S., went to a railroad station in New York City, plunked down his savings and asked for a ticket west, as far as his money would take him. That turned out to be Lincoln, Neb. Hill's father, arriving from the Ukraine "with less than a buck in his pocket," followed, and it was in Lincoln that Hill was born and raised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Vindicating Rights in California | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...arrest record is discriminatory. His view that Chinese students have a right to a bilingual education, first expressed in a dissenting opinion, was later adopted by the Supreme Court. In an opinion in an obscenity case, he once wrote: "The censor and the illegal police raiding party are even less welcome in this country than the peddler of execrable sex materials, and with good cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Vindicating Rights in California | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...nest, and in come crosses and furniture that would be too severe for a monastery. Another crisis occurs when the boy's real mother, hastily recruited for the occasion, is delayed. Very well, Zaza will do his hilarious best to fill in - even though he is, if anything, less able to play a straight woman than a straight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gay Birds | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

There is one caveat in these strategies: all could possibly interfere with healing processes in normal tissue and lead to serious bleeding. But, says Dvorak, some bleeding might be less dangerous than many of the destructive anticancer drugs and radiation treatments now being used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Cocoon | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

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