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...stirred his biggest ruckus just two days after President Nixon fired Archibald Cox. Smith condemned "this defiant flouting of laws and courts." The Louisiana Bar Association voted to censure Smith for his stand. Last week, at the A.B.A.'s midyear meeting in Houston, halfway through Smith's twelve-month term in office, some delegates were still grousing about "Chesterfield's outspokenness." Smith's Watergate stance, said Texas Bar President Leroy Jeffers, was an intemperate "catering to the popular passions of the time. Let American lawyers be no part of such rotten and shabby business...
...ruckus began with a simple announcement in July. Just as in a political matter, the Governor figured that the best way to solve his problem would be to make it public. He issued a press release at the State House: "I would like to announce that I am separated from Mrs. Mandel. My decision, and the separation, are final and irrevocable, and I will take immediate action to dissolve the marriage. I am in love with another woman, Mrs. Jeanne Dorsey, and I intend to marry her. There will be no further comment or discussion...
...latest ruckus began when the N.C.A.A. barred coaches and athletes under its jurisdiction from participating in two A.A.U.-sponsored competitions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. As a result, a weakened American team lost a track meet to the Russians in Richmond last month. More of the same seemed likely in a series of Soviet-American basketball games that will begin April 29 in Los Angeles. Last week N.C.A.A. Executive Director Walter Byers told the House Special Education Subcommittee that his organization would cooperate in the basketball event if the A.A.U. would formally apply for the services of undergraduate...
...frank indifference to the origins of their pots and bronzes. Said an official of the antiquities museum in Basel, Switzerland: "It's public knowledge that 90% of the certificates of origin accompanying such works of art are totally unreliable. Most certificates are manipulated. The Italians can raise a ruckus, as in the case of the Metropolitan vase. But if they cannot prove anything, their claims are worthless. Unless the Italian authorities can come up with something like a photograph showing a work of art in an identifiable Etruscan tomb, they don't have a leg to stand...
...current Met ruckus goes back to 1970, when the museum bought Velásquez's portrait of his black apprentice, Juan de Pareja, for $5,544,000 -the highest price ever paid at auction for a work of art. To pay it, Hoving and his Acquisitions Committee had to liquidate the capital left in the museum's Fletcher Fund, about $6,000,000, and commit themselves to pay back at least a part of it, in yearly installments of $160,000 through 1976. In effect, the buying power of the Metropolitan's 17 departments had been partly...