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What has happened that these things should be possible? One thing, certainly, is that the sense of community has been lost in the bigness and bureaucracy of big-city life. In small-town America, people wanted neighbors for a defense against loneliness; in big-city America, people feel that neighbors are merely crowding in on them and threatening their privacy. Nobody knows his neighbor-and doesn't want...
...doubt that many Republicans did in fact cross party lines (which is easy in Wisconsin) and voted for Wallace. In some upper-income suburbs north of Milwaukee, Wallace ran ahead of both Reynolds and the Republican favorite son, Congressman John Byrnes. Wallace also ran well in the farm and small-town heartland of Joe McCarthy, near Appleton and Oshkosh...
...This was a case that called for humbleness. It required a serene, solemn and sober defense." Added Beverly Hills Lawyer Paul Caruso: "Wade was perfect in his role. Belli was too flashy. What Ruby needed was a defense lawyer who could have matched Wade's demeanor, perhaps a small-town Texas lawyer, old-fashioned and down to earth, with suspenders instead of a velvet collar." The professional verdict on Belli's conduct of the defense was neatly capsuled in a Texas lawyer's quip: "They found Melvin Belli guilty and gave Jack Ruby the chair...
...police chief, a minister, a small-town publisher, a priest, a high school principal, and a social worker--in short, the Massachusetts Obscene Literature Control Commission--have provoked the intellectuals, students, and reading public of the Commonwealth into justifiable outrage. The Commission has declared Fanny Hill; Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure "obscene, indecent, and impure" without offering any scientific proof of the allegation...
Enthralled by Lawyers. Johnson's father once served as county judge, and young Frank loved to sit in the local courtroom and listen to lawyers argue their cases. "I was enthralled," he remembers. His rise in the law was swift: he went from small-town practitioner to U.S. Attorney in 1953, and two years later President Eisenhower named him a district judge. He was then 37, one of the youngest federal judges in the nation...