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...prosecutors and police chiefs take an exceedingly dim view of Traynor's court. "All this emphasis on individual rights has made the work of law enforcement more difficult and costly," complains Alameda (Oakland) County's veteran District Attorney Frank Coakley. By contrast, California Bar Association President John Sutro is a Traynor admirer. "You and I would like to see all crooks in jail," says Sutro. "So would Chief Justice Traynor. But this is a government of law not men, and the maintenance of that essential is the difference between our government and tyranny." It is, moreover, what makes...
...company himself?he took eight trips to West Virginia in the course of buying into Wheeling Steel?but his trips are mainly for general impressions rather than to learn exact detail of operations. When he has finally made up his mind about a company, the hot line to Sutro & Co. of Los Angeles, his primary broker, lights up and Simon begins...
Clumeck, Simon's itinerant board sitter and a funnel for the thousands of scouts and tipsters who now besiege Simon; Brokers Felix Juda of Sutro and Gustave Levy of Manhattan's Goldman Sachs & Co.; Graham Sterling, a Los Angeles lawyer and an expert on the intricacies of the Securities and Exchange Commission; and Hunt President Carl Kalbfleisch and Executive Vice President Harold M. Williams, who help Simon plan overall strategy...
Taking the debatable position that Khrushchev should not have appeared on the show at all, the Wall Street brokerage firm, Sutro Bros. & Co., a longtime sponsor of Open End, canceled its commitments to the show. Susskind's final muddled reaction to Khrushchev: "The guy is one part Santa Claus, one part doctrinaire, one part demeaning uncle." Khrushchev's reaction to Susskind: "You have good eyes. I could negotiate with...
...Tamalpais in 100-m.p.h. gusts. In the first 3½ days of April, San Francisco got 3.96 in. of rain. Normal rainfall for all of April: 1.49 in. Rain cascaded down the city's spectacular slopes, spilled knee-deep into downtown streets. On residential Mt. Sutro a strange sea of mud 100 ft. long and 25 ft. deep seeped toward a couple of apartment houses. In the tidelands community of Alviso, almost all of the 1,000 residents evacuated their homes before 4-to-8-ft. floods. Against four miles of coastline near Rockaway Beach, the ocean battered...