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Unforgivable Error. The harsh charge called up memories of a life of outspoken advocacy and fierce controversy. A Brooklynite, whose parents brought him to the U.S. from Rumania in 1897, Sam Leibowitz went to Cornell Law School and became a dramatically successful criminal lawyer. In the 1920s and '30s, his roster of clients included some of the country's most notorious hoods-Al Capone, Kid Twist Reles, Pittsburgh Phil Strauss. He fought for the Mad Dog Killer and the Bread Knife Murderess, and of more than 100 defendants charged with first-degree murder, Sam saved...
First of all, Erhard must find some way of quieting Adensur's ideological descendants with in his own C.D.U. These outspoken parliamentarians, led by former foreign minister Heinrich von Brentano and the swarthy Bavarian Franz-Josef Strauss, are suspicious of Erhard's foreign policy. They favor further exploration of Franco-German unity and would not mind an independent nuclear force for Germany. Their fear of concessions to the Russians became obvious in this summer's debate over ratification of the Moscow atom-bomb pact, when they directly opposed Erhard...
...rely heavily on "respectful disagreement"-tantalizing the professor who pines for ardent student protest. Really daring grade grubbers go much farther. "If his poli-sci prof is an outspoken liberal," says one Yaleman, "the imaginative con man adopts a fascist interpretation in his classwork. Since most profs like to compare themselves to Voltaire, they will give the Jittie fascist every benefit of the doubt...
Down with Committees. One of the last remaining U.S. businessmen to head a huge company that carries his family name, "H. W." Hoover is unique and outspoken in many ways. He abhors management by committee; on his desk is a picture of a camel and the familiar gag caption that it is a horse designed by a committee. He insists that his executives stay out of the stock market (says Hoover: "If they're absorbed in gaining wealth, they're not giving their best thinking to the company"). He forbids corporate borrowing ("You get captured by financial obligations...
Whatever one may think of Paul Cowan's "outspoken appraisal" of parisal rules, his article contains as example of poor journalism which may harm both the University and the CRIMSON...