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...They can't leave home without us," quips Donald Richberg, coordinator of the program. Following an initial outlay of $100,000, the project has cost the county only about $10 a day per probationer. The anklets have been tried in at least eight states since New Mexico introduced electronic monitoring in 1983. The cost accounting looks favorable, but technical gremlins have been showing up too, resulting in reports of false disappearances or failures to report real ones...
...Richberg's Cafe on U.S. Highway 11 in Enterprise, Miss., served customers Southern style: blacks entered and ate at one end of the establishment, whites at the other, with a partition in between. That type of separation was outlawed in 1964 by the public-accommodation section of the Federal Civil Rights Act, which applied to the cafe because substantial quantities of food and beverages served came from outside the state. But such new-found laws were not about to move Proprietor A. W. Richberg. When the Federal Government sued, Richberg simply renamed the cafe's white section "Dixie...
...judges shredded Richberg's bylaws, which they labeled "transparently meretricious." As for the club's mem bers, they said, "in the interest of fellowship they have held no meetings; in pursuit of culinary excellence, their food is the same as in its pre-club days; and in their concern for efficiency, they have turned over all profits and operations to one man." Of that man, the judges concluded: "Richberg wants us to believe that he was cuisine-conscious but not pigment-minded...
Died. Donald Randall Richberg, 79, onetime New Deal lawyer who helped draft the National Industrial Recovery Act and the Norris-La Guardia Anti-Injunction Act, then shifted from business-baiting ("the despotic power of those 'royal families' which control large industries") to business-boosting (as counsel to Ford Motor Co., Transamerica Corp.) and wound up a vehement opponent of labor-union "monopolies," social security, public housing, integration, minimum wage laws; of a heart attack; in Charlottesville...
...been slow to get his hands on money. He inherited $200,000 from his mother, spent part of it studying psychology under Sigmund Freud in Vienna, playwriting under George Pierce Baker at Yale, law at George Washington University. In 1926 he joined a top Washington law firm (now Davies, Richberg, Tydings, Landa & Duff), was soon making fat fees for defending prominent men, e.g., Alexander de Seversky (for his criticism of Air Force procurement...