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...years that the Jacoby-Meyers operation has been in business, some 3,500 consumers have taken advantage of its budget prices. The staff manages to hold costs down and make a slight profit by relying heavily on nonlawyers. Clients pay an initial $15 fee, then are interviewed by paralegal workers who take down the facts and fill out routine forms for uncontested divorces and other straightforward cases. Later, the client confers with a staff lawyer or an outside specialist, who will wind up the details of the case and, if necessary, take it to court...
...Times's other Vietnam reporter, James M. Markham, Shipler's articles were based on an unconsidered assumption that the NLF couldn't possibly speak for the people of South Vietnam, and merits suppression by any means necessary. Working from this assumption, Shipler spends all his energies on comparatively slight points like the number of non-communists--innocent people--falsely described as communists--guilty people. His ability to distinguish what matters most ends up at about the level of Linda Charlton, whose coverage of Rockefeller's confirmation hearings in The Times lumps together questions about the Attica killings and Rockefeller...
Jewett blamed inflation and rising costs for a slight decrease last year in applications to Harvard from middle-income students. Since fewer middle-class students are applying Jewett said the admissions office is accepting more students from upper-income families...
...people who put mayonnaise on their venison," as Johnny Carson once said) goes no further. Dad (Jack Elam) is a shaggy boozer with an itchy foot and no talent at all for drawing uplifting morals from life's little disasters. "Hard work gives a man character-and a slight stoop," he says. Mom is dead, and the head of the family is Truckie (Gary Busey) a 24-year-old high school dropout who is more admired by his siblings because he has done time for "grand theft, auto" than for his efforts to raise them respectably while completing...
Stephen S. J. Hall, vice president for administration, who has jurisdiction over police operations, said yesterday that there was a slight delay, but that he believed that it was not a major problem with most of the people in Carpenter Center...