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...wall striped with the old masters. The painting offered instruction to the American public about art treasure on the other side of the Atlantic. Today the minute imitation of more than thirty paintings crowded on the museum wall make a pattern of curiosities for the eve to probe. Morse used mellow tones in his graceful storv of European culture...
...student union by armed blacks. In sympathy last week, 150 white students staged a sit-in at the trustees' office to support the blacks' demands for a new center building and black guards to protect black housing. Cornell President Dale R. Corson asked the FBI to probe the fire and posted a $10,000 reward to help catch the arsonists. As black anger deepened, Corson imposed an 11 p.m.-to-7 a.m. campus curfew and got a court injunction to prevent further disruption...
...Army made its charges on the basis of a 3½-month investigation headed by Lieut. General William Peers. The probe was instituted to find out if there had in fact been a massacre and, if so, whether anyone had tried to hush it up. On the first point, General Peers said that his findings "clearly established that a tragedy of major proportions occurred there." On the second: "Certain individuals, either wittingly or unwittingly, by their action suppressed information from being passed up the chain of command." Of the total of 27 charges against the officers, 16 were for "failure...
...Goldstein realizes that his task now reaches far beyond the perimeters of legal scholarship. He wants to reunite teachers and students into the kind of cohesive academic community that once helped make Yale the nation's most creative law school. At the same time, he has promised to probe for innovative answers to the mounting problems of legal education...
...that sounds like Sam Sheppard and F. Lee Bailey in Easy Rider, it is un ashamedly supposed to. A modestly budgeted film without a name star, The Lawyer has magnificent pretensions. It seeks to analyze the dilemma of freedom of the press v. a defendant's pretrial rights, probe the personality of an ambitious young trial lawyer and lay bare the smug, self-righteous rural soul (which suffers from overexposure anyway). The result is a demolition derby that threatens to wreck everyone in sight...