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...money, understandably leary of poor defendants who can neither put up collateral nor pay the usual fee: $100 for each $1,000 of bail. But what to do about it? By far the most impressive answers came not from a lawman but from a retired chemical engineer named Louis Schweitzer, who reported on a bold new experiment that may soon revolutionize the U.S. bail system...
Interview Through Bars. It all started 31 years ago when Schweitzer, now 65, met New York City Prison Commissioner Anna Kross, who took him to visit a Brooklyn detention prison. He was shocked by the large number of pre-trial prisoners and donated $70,000 to set up the Vera Foundation, which he named for his mother (because "I thought she would have liked what I was doing"). In cooperation with the New York University Law School, Schweitzer's foundation set up the Manhattan Bail Project, which has been operating for 31 months on a trial basis in Manhattan...
...problems: Europe is wrestling with persistent inflation, and the U.S. is fighting a pernicious international payments imbalance and gold outflow. These two problems captured the attention of the meeting, which included almost everybody who is anybody among the world's money managers-from IMF Managing Director Pierre-Paul Schweitzer and Deutsche Bank Chief Hermann Abs to Morgan Guaranty Chairman Henry C. Alexander and the U.S.'s Gardner Ackley, a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. The more they talked, the more obvious became their conflicting goals. Nearly every important measure that Europeans take...
STILL LIFES-Schweitzer, 958 Madison Ave. at 75th. The stimulus of still life is ages old, the artist's response to it always new. Persuasive testimony to the fact: a collection that begins with Vanderhamen, a Spanish painter of Flemish ancestry who worked in Madrid more than 300 years ago, embraces Ruoppolo, Bernard, Lebasque, Marie Laurencin (a pink bouquet of roses on wood believed to be her only extant still life), Pechstein, Hartley and others, concludes with a contemporary Spaniard, Josep Roca. Through March...
...they began landing at the Libreville airport, where the rebels providentially had failed to erect obstacles on the runway. The troopers swept through the city with little resistance, but the coup leaders made a stand at Baraka. Sending Mba off under guard to a village near Dr. Albert Schweitzer's hospital at Lambarene, the rebels prepared to meet the imminent French attack. It came next morning as French fighters stooped like falcons from the tropic sky, sent ball and tracer lashing into the army camp...