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...passionate advocate of civil liberties (and good cigars), Amsterdam has submitted more than 100 briefs to the Supreme Court. Among the cases in which he has been involved: Ernesto Miranda, Martin Luther King, Gary Gilmore. In 1972, with Amsterdam representing 450 of the 600 convicts on death row, the Supreme Court decided in Furman v. Georgia that the haphazard enforcement of capital punishment was unconstitutional. Now that the court has upheld some death-penalty laws, he says his strategy is to fight "to keep as few people from getting killed as possible." As a teacher, Amsterdam believes that by traditionally...
...chief "Elmer Fudd" in washroom graffiti. San Francisco's new police chief removed the American flag to make his office less formal, and small flags defiantly sprouted on squad-car antennas. The Orange County Patrolmen's Benevolent Association in Florida gives its members a policeman's "Miranda card," outlining not the rights of criminal suspects but the officer's own rights if he is investigated by his department. Rank-and-file cops in San Diego hired Teamsters professionals for $150,000 to negotiate their contract, and the Chicago Patrolmen's Association has endorsed a Teamsters...
Husky Alto. Drawing on pop's musical past, Savannah synthesizes the sounds of yesterday-Count Basic, Hoagy Carmichael, Carmen Miranda-with its own swank brand of soul. Strains of Whispering (1920) are grafted onto Cherchez la Femme, a disco number bumping along to Mickey Sevilla's sassy drumbeat. A lilting intro evoking Glenn Miller evolves into the hustle smash I'll Play the Fool...
...contract also includes a "health and safety" clause, which protects workers from potentially hazardous job assignments, as well as what Balsam characterized several weeks ago as "a Miranda clause...
...University contract proposal also includes a new "health and safety" clause, which would protect workers from potentially hazardous job assignments, and what Balsam characterized as a "Miranda clause...