Word: localism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Forceful Representation. Sobol's lawyers argued that if Negroes asserting their constitutional rights have trouble 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...
...find the state's legal-practice statutes unconstitutional. But even so, Sobol feels that his case will serve as a healthy precedent. "The decision," he says, "makes pretty clear that an out-of-state lawyer properly practicing this kind of law can't, be punished by local authorities...
...Intended for a beekeeper in Columbus, Ga., the parcel had mysteriously acquired the doctor's address en route. In Los Angeles, a couple delightedly opened a two-pound box of Dutch chocolates, only to find a soupy goo inside. Their gift had languished for six months in a local postal warehouse before delivery...
...crisis began this spring, after local police arrested nine students in a surprise marijuana raid. New Hampshire's largest newspaper, the archconservative Manchester Union Leader, followed with a front-page exposé titled "Bare Debauchery at Franconia College." The newspaper charged that "drugs, alcohol and sex are among the main ingredients of campus life. Naked and drugged or drunken men and women have been seen running through the halls at night, and orgies and nude parties have occurred." The accusations, supposedly based on secret reports from an unidentified informant, probably exaggerated the situation at Franconia. Nonetheless, the attack alarmed...
...chairman of the Kenya Development Finance Co., a four-year-old, nonprofit organization created to help establish new industry. A member of the dominant Kikuyu tribe, from which Kenya draws a large proportion of its successful native businessmen, the missionary-educated Rubia was once a clerk in a local stock brokerage, later became a dry-goods retailer before serving from 1962 to 1967 as Nairobi's first African mayor. Rubia's development company recently doubled its capitalization to $9,000,000. "Industry does not generally attract outside investors," he says, "unless there is active participation in industry within...