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...Foot race is escalating in Britain. Outspoken Newsman Michael Foot, 51, of the weekly London Tribune, is stepping up in Westminster as a Labor party M. P., while his brother Dingle, 59, the new government's Solicitor General, will soon be knighted and hang out his shingle as Sir Dingle. Meanwhile the left Foots' forthright brother, Sir Hugh Foot, 57, sometime colonial governor and Britain's U.N. delegate, is about to be made a lord, and must decide what name to take after it. am afraid," says he, "that use of 'the Baron Foot' might...
Congress was indeed right, said Solicitor General Archibald Cox, citing one statistic after another. From Miami to Washington in 1963, he said, the average distance between motels that accepted Negroes was 141 miles. The bar against Negroes cuts business for hotels, stores, theaters and restaurants throughout the South. When Negroes demonstrate, Southern retail sales are cut by as much as 50%. When whites resist, as in Little Rock, new plants stop coming in. Race discrimination not only "distorts the flow of commerce," argued Cox, but also "prevents it from flowing freely...
Trickle by Trickle. But what could Solicitor General Cox say about Ollie's Barbecue in Birmingham? In that second case of the day, Cox was himself appealing a lower-court decision that found Title II could not constitutionally reach a strictly local restaurant...
...hero-victim is a middle-aged solicitor, and it is the hour of his ultimate estrangement. His clients shrug him off. His mistress, wearying of him, cancels plans for the weekend with him. His clerk, who has really been running the law practice, gives notice. His secretary, with whom he used to catch a few winks on the office couch, tells him she is pregnant and leaving to marry her new lover. His daughter listens passively to his wandering verbiage, then walks wordlessly away from him. His wife attacks him savagely on the phone, and he opts...
...magnificently a part that is punishingly long and concentrated. Osborne skillfully manages to arrest his hero just on the brink of the absurd-even if his man does persist in viewing others just a bit less flatteringly than they view him. "The whole bloody island is blocked," says the solicitor, "with those flatulent, purblind mating weasels...