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...class. In 1959 he ranked fifth among 2,000 applicants to Athens University's law school, won a scholarship as the first blind student ever admitted. After three years' required apprenticeship in an Athens law office, he capped his bar exam by successfully arguing a moot case before a panel that included Greek Supreme Court justices...
Chicago Criminal Court Judge Maurice Lee was getting nothing but moot replies in Spanish from two Puerto Rican complainants in a disorderly-conduct case. Was there an interpreter in the house? Up stepped Danny Escobedo, 29 (TIME Cover, April 29), who has been kindly disposed toward the law ever since 1964's Supreme Court decision in Escobedo v. Illinois, voiding his murder confession on grounds that he was denied his rights to counsel. Since his parents are Mexican, Escobedo was sworn in as an interpreter and translated the Puerto Ricans' side of the case. A few minutes later...
...than the biggest crowd at any game in the league's first year. Last August the league expanded to nine teams-adding a franchise in Miami-and now there is talk of a tenth tearn in Chicago. How much Foss had to do with all this is a moot question. Very little, said his enemies among the owners-and last week they forced him to quit with a year still to go on his 50,000-a-year contract. As Foss's sucessor they chose Oakland Raiders Coach Al Davis. Foss's good advice to Davis: "Wear...
...John R. Moot '43, president of the CEOC, said last night that it is possible that the entire proposal may not be approved by the Office of Economic Opportunity. "The federal office operates a highly-complicated system of priorities," Moot declared. "There's no way of telling which proposals will be cut or even of determining when we'll get word of the office's decision...
...Raymond De Becker, a wartime German collaborator who had been deprived for life of most of his civil liberties. The very fact that the court was pondering the Belgian law that authorized De Becker's fate prodded Belgium into striking it off the books-thus rendering the case moot...