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...January 11 letter to Dunlop, the student leaders of PBH stated, "We do not feel that we have been given an adequate chance to plead our case. Not only were we denied a hearing before the full committee, but also the subcommittee which we understood would act as our advocate, seriously distorted our request and our situation in its report and recommendations to the full committee." Dunlop agreed to meet with the PBH student leaders and some members of the PBH Faculty Committee on January...
...seven will plead not guilty on all charges. Judith Remcho, one of the group's lawyers, said yesterday...
...search, he has had a few bad scrapes. His first film, Shadows, was begun independently and as an act of love. It was finished on contributions from a radio audience who heard Cassavetes plead for funds on the Jean Shepherd show late one night. His next film, Too Late Blues, was financed-and controlled-by Paramount. Stanley Kramer, executive producer of A Child Is Waiting and a director himself (On the Beach, Judgment at Nuremberg), fired Cassavetes before he could even complete editing Child...
...they took on 480,000 new cases and wound up with 520,000 still unsettled. The backlog has multiplied nearly 15 times in ten years. Preliminary-hearing sessions are so jammed that 30 seconds is a typical proceeding. After that, the average defendant waits two months before getting to plead guilty or not guilty. Those who demand a trial sometimes wait three years-in jail if they cannot afford bail...
...young and the idealistic, which it had held in the time when labor led the battle for reform. Today, instead of seeking to change and improve the system, the union leadership has become a part of it. Textile-union leaders, for example, accompany mill owners to Congress to plead for higher tariffs...