Word: nonsupporters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...juvenile court judges, a quarter of them non-lawyers and most of them overworked. In 1957, Washington's Judge Ketcham found himself the low-paid Solomon in sole charge of the city's 225,000 juvenile cases, plus all of its paternity suits and nonsupport cases. By contrast, 31 other judges handled the city's 550,000 adult cases. "I had to hear 197 cases in my first three days of court," recalls Ketcham. "I don't want that to happen again to anyone...
With a few exceptions the supporting cast might be accused of nonsupport. Hume Cronyn's Polonius is devilishly fine, a battered human filing cabinet of platitudes who has achieved diplomatic immunity to everything but the sound of his own voice. And George Rose's First Gravedigger is a roguish, low-comic word prankster. But Alfred Drake's King Claudius is too suavely ingratiating to have killed a brother and seized a crown. He is more like mine host of the Elsinore Hilton. Eileen Her-lie is a middle-aged matron with diction; it is easier to imagine...
...parents could provide $50,000 bail: "I don't think they would be interested." The third man, John Irwin, 42, of Hollywood, a house painter, had a record of arrests from Maine to California for a mixed bag of crimes ranging from assault and battery to nonsupport...
...League offers a six-month course in child care and home life, and the Catholic Church now plans night schools in literacy and parenthood for at least 75,000 young couples. And Venezuelan judges are getting tough with delinquent fathers. Under new laws passed by Congress, fathers guilty of nonsupport face a sobering choice: voluntary support of their offspring, a jail sentence, or a forcible child-care deduction from their weekly wages...
Berj Mosekian-until he had it legally changed. He had served jail time in California for passing bad checks. His first wife had divorced him for desertion and nonsupport. Morrison lost. Retired to private law practice, he blamed the Republic for his defeat, dreamed up ways to stage a comeback. Finally, he decided that the best way to do it was to start an opposition paper...