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...certainly not alone in its woes with the spreading scourge of kickbacks. After a year-long federal grand jury investigation, 19 U.S. and foreign airlines (including Pan Am) last week offered to plead no contest to charges that they had given illegal kickbacks to travel agents. Last week as well, financially straitened W.T. Grant Co. filed civil fraud charges in New York federal court against three of its executives -including John A. Christensen, a $72,000-a-year vice president-alleging that they had accepted bribes from an Atlanta-based real estate developer to lease inferior sites for shopping centers...
...sent to Bridgewater for pre-trial observation by the prison's medical staff." With the current backing of trial cases, pre-trial observation often lasts for months, even years. Other inmates wind up at Bridgewater because their lawyers have tried to obtain shorter sentences for them by having them plead insanity Because most "patients" are given drugs--often against their will--the ploy can easily backfire, burdening taxpayers, destroying the minds and lives of human beings...
...Committee on General Education has been forced to stand by and watch the program's decline. With no power either to initiate courses or make appointments, the only action it can take is "to plead, cajole and beg" said Kiely, chairman of the committee. It is entirely dependent upon the initiative of a Faculty that should have a clear idea of what General Education is and is meant to be. In the recent past the committee has been unable to reflect, as it ideally should, the visions of the Faculty; for the Faculty has been unable to form...
...Monday Edelin grew more confident and stoutly resisted Flanagan's efforts to suggest that he wandered from acceptable medical practice in his treatment of the patient. The defendant answered questions forcefully and sometimes angrily; twice he wagged his right forefinger at the prosecutor; and he never had to plead the fifth amendment under the blustering cross-examination...
Politicians have a bad name: a lot of fathers would not want their daughters to marry one, and candidates' wives openly express the wish that their husbands were in some other line of work. But at the very least, politicians are entitled to plead, in the words of the old song: "You made me what I am today, I hope you're satisfied." That plea will probably get them about as much sympathy as the jilted lover gets, but it deserves to be considered. Complacent public discussion usually turns on the poor quality of the candidates...