Word: montana
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Precious Commodity. Though local bar associations often take an initially dim view of such efforts, the idea that law students should emulate medical students' intern training has now been accepted in varying degrees in Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York and Wyoming. In Massachusetts, the state's highest court has authorized law students to appear in lower courts and to defend indigents in cases involving less than 2½ years' imprisonment. At Boston University, law students now get classroom credit for courtroom practice in Roxbury, a predominantly Negro slum where 70% of defendants...
...York, Massachusetts, Maine and Wyoming, drug addicts and mental defectives can get licenses. In Kansas, one state official discovered not long ago that 10% of the people receiving aid-to-the-blind payments were licensed to take the wheel. Children of 14 can be licensed in many states; in Montana, some 13-year-olds are permitted to drive-although one study by New York State showed that drivers under 18 have an accident rate 70% higher than older ones. Most drivers are tested only once in a lifetime, under ideal conditions at low speeds. On the highway-where they have...
Mansfield of Montana proposed that the Democrats arm themselves with four assistant whips to aid Louisiana's Russell Long, the Democratic whip. He recommended Maryland's Daniel Brewster, Michigan's Philip Hart, Hawaii's Daniel Inouye and Maine's Edmund Muskie. Democrats gave unanimous approval to both plan and candidates. Some saw Mansfield's move as an attempt to put a brake on the runaway ambitions of Louisiana's Long, who also takes over the duties of chairman of the Finance Committee this session and is believed by some Democrats to have...
...confronts "unrealistically high" ages of consent in most states. Delaware, to be sure, sets the age at seven, but in most other states it ranges from 16 to 18-and up to 21 in Tennessee. For statutory rape, a man can get 30 years in Connecticut, 99 years in Montana, and life imprisonment in Indiana. In 17 states, he faces death...
...Virginia's Harry Byrd, who resigned from the Senate in November because of ill health. Long will be the first man in memory to hold both jobs, but Senate friends say that he has his eye on yet another job: the Senate majority leadership, now held by Montana's unassertive Mike Mansfield. "We all love Mike," says one Democratic Senator, "but many of us don't like the way he runs the Senate. With Long, you always know where he stands, because he's not afraid to sound off on issues...