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...figures) and visits from would-be agents, manufacturers and licensees (Skora recently signed a deal to license foot-high Arok toys in Japan). Arok has become a favorite on the convention and industrial-show circuit and wows 'em at bank branch openings by incinerating the ceremonial ribbon with his laser gun. His top appearance...
Martha Roberts, the netwomen's singles ace, came back to grab the consolation blue ribbon after dropping a disappointing contest to Greta Frei of Vassar, 2-2. In the finals, Robert defeated Barnard's Ann D'Adesky, a recent transfer from Florida...
Despite its flaws, legal scholars defend the adversary system. Notes a law school dean: "You have to compare it to alternatives. The adversary system works better than anything else available." Nonetheless, bar officials realize that the system requires improvement. In an effort to make it function better, a blue-ribbon committee of the A.B.A. is currently revising the 1969 Code of Professional Responsibility. A vague, well-meaning document, the code provides few clear-cut answers to the problems facing the modern legal profession. A.B.A. President William Spann asks, for example, "Is the lawyer obligated to blow the whistle...
...priest is the Rev. Henri de Grouès, 65, known universally as Abbé Pierre. The only visible indication that he is no ordinary priest is a thin red ribbon of the Legion of Honor stitched on his jacket. But he is the man who, as a former law professor at the Orléans lunch put it, "almost singlehanded mobilized the entire government and people of France to do something for the poor...
...bill. "If we are going to convince the people of this state that every aspect of this problem has been looked into, and that the best judgement has been made as to what happened and what should be done in the future, we should create the Blue Ribbon Commission without delay," Dukakis said...