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...York round trip and from $968 to $1,010 for a New York-Rome return economy ticket. Hikes in excursion fares used most frequently by tourists were somewhat smaller. A summer "peak season" 22-to 45-day New York-London return ticket will rise $34, to $527, and the prepaid tariff for tickets ordered two months in advance will increase...
...legal profession" and the law schools for shunning the lower criminal courts and letting them remain "invisible and disreputable." To make new lawyers aware of the problem, the center recommends that law students be hired to assist lawyers who work in such courts. It also endorses widespread use of prepaid insurance for legal services...
...small but growing crew of public-minded lawyers are trying to change all that. Perhaps their most important innovation is prepaid legal insurance along the lines of Blue Shield. Already, some 2,500 organizations round the country are experimenting with group plans. Students at the University of Massachusetts, for example, pay an annual fee and are now eligible for legal help in handling problems ranging from marijuana busts to landlord-and-tenant quarrels. In Columbus, Ohio, members of Local 423 of the Laborers' International Union can get everything from divorces and wills to real estate closings paid...
...legal insurance. Congress has now amended the law so that labor and management can both contribute to legal-insurance funds, as they have long been permitted to do with pension and health plans. As a result, Hugh Duffy, former chief counsel of the House Special Subcommittee on Labor, predicts: "Prepaid legal services will now be in the mainstream of collective bargaining." So far, some 25 labor unions have persuaded employers to help set up and contribute to legal insurance funds. Some legal experts estimate that in the next few years, 70% of all Americans and 50% of all lawyers will...
...Line, Britain's second largest travel firm. Some 49,000 British tourists, mostly members of the working class, were stranded throughout Europe, the Soviet Union and North Africa. Another 100,000 had to stay home; they lost not only their holidays but perhaps $15 million which had been prepaid, often with life savings. "We've slaved, actually slaved, for a whole year, cutting down on everything from milk to the pictures," sobbed one London schoolteacher. "Now we've lost the holiday and the money. Oh God, what...