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...river on a scow to halt work on a dam that was being constructed to divert water to Los Angeles. Three times in the 1930s, Arizona unsuccessfully brought suit against California in the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1952 Arizona sued again. The Supreme Court assigned Simon H. Rifkind, New York lawyer and former federal district judge, to assemble facts and shape a recommendation. Rifkind held a marathon trial in 1956-58, gathered testimony from 340 witnesses, accumulated a transcript of 26,242 pages, and eventually, in early 1961, submitted to the Supreme Court a 433-page report...
Last week, having taken another two years to puzzle over Rifkind's tome, the Supreme Court handed down a decision that largely affirmed his conclusions. In essence, the court upheld Arizona's claims and knocked down California...
...hero and making Phi Beta Kappa. Caplin fulfilled predictions by finishing first in his law school class (average: 94.5). In addition, he won the Raven Award as an outstanding man in his class. As a youthful lawyer, Caplin found his way to the Wall Street firm of Paul. Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. In 1950, before getting a doctor-of-laws degree as a night student at New York University, he went back to the University of Virginia to teach. By the time President Kennedy tapped him to be the nation's chief tax collector, Caplin was earning...
...commission's railroad and union members spent so much time sniping at each other that the report had to be written almost entirely by five nonindustry members, led by peppery Manhattan Lawyer Simon H. Rifkind. The report hit hard at the rail unions by recommending the gradual elimination of over 40,000 freight-and yard-engine firemen-survivors of the era of steam locomotives who, at union insistence, still ride diesel engines. (Rifkind & Co. conceded, however, that firemen still provide a necessary margin of safety in the engines of highspeed passenger trains.) The commission urged that the railroads...
...present system, an engineer on a fast "red apple" run may be paid $39.95 for only four hours' work because he traveled 160 miles, while the engineer of a slower train may have to work ten hours to collect $34.33 because he traveled only 100 miles. Commented Rifkind: "Whoever invented that system belongs to the Rube Goldberg club." The commission proposed that the straightforward test of hours worked be given greater weight in wage formulas. Other commission proposals...