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...case comes up in Cambridge's Third District Court this morning at nine. There was no clear indication last night as to how Thompson will plead, but Lampoon officials indicated they hoped the case will be settled out of court...
While India's and Pakistan's inflation is due to their laudable, if overambitious, efforts to expand their industry. Indonesia can plead no such saving excuse. Indonesia has had a 59% cost-of-living rise since 1953. largely because the government is so intent on exterminating the last vestiges of colonialism that it is likely to destroy every profitable form of enterprise in the process. Indonesia has failed to pass a mining-and-oil-exploration law that would bring in new foreign companies, will offer no assurances against confiscation of new capital. Indonesia's legislature has ordered...
...case worth handling, one of its lawyers will accept it. The Harvard student will act as the attorney's assistant in investigating and trying the case. Unlike students in the civil organization, the Harvard Defenders can only go to the courts as consultants to Boston practicing lawyers, who plead the cases...
...momentous confrontation, set before a backdrop of high feeling and history. The rebellious governor of the state of Arkansas, defying U.S. courts and U.S. law, went to plead his case before the President of the U.S. There was quiet, friendly talk behind closed doors; there were smiles and handshakes for the camera, then politely worded, carefully prepared statements. Through all of these devices the result was clear: the President of the U.S. had flatly insisted that the governor of Arkansas must bow to the law and withdraw from his position of rebellion...
Partnership & Pride. Then Nahum Goldmann rose to plead with Ben-Gurion for some kind of formal working partnership between the Jews of Israel and Jews in other countries before it is too late and both die spiritually. Failure of this partnership would be calamitous for Israel and catastrophic for the Jews of the Diaspora. "Israel must counteract by its existence the silent process of assimilation. What made Eastern Jewry so powerful and creative was not its theoretical adherence to Jewish religion and Jewish culture but the fact that it had implemented the Talmud in its daily life. Such reality...