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...incident goaded Mrs. Jacobs into organizing a campaign to overhaul the city's entire system of dealing with unwanted or delinquent children. She ran headlong into an ineluctable bureaucracy and conditions grimly reminiscent of Oliver Twist. The chief probation officer told her: "If anybody cared about these kids, they wouldn't be here. The community uses Juvenile Hall for a dumping ground." The hall's resident doctor scorned her lack of credentials and said, "What you must realize is that by the time these children get to us, they've been through so much that there...
...Trooper Johnson, the law has taken a strange twist. The Alaska Supreme Court has now reversed the ruling absolving him. As an officer, said the court, Johnson was under a legal obligation to provide aid; he cannot be protected by any good Samaritan statute. Elizabeth, now 15, is therefore free to press her complaint of negligence. The court added, however, that if Johnson is found at fault, Alaska too would be liable. In that case, the state would presumably pay the bill...
...shown up years ago on Philco TV Playhouse as "strong adult drama." Indeed, the director-producer of Going Home, Herbert B. Leonard, served a lengthy apprenticeship in television. Too lengthy, perhaps. Both he and Marcus never develop their characters, as if they thought nuance could be provided with a twist of the fine-tuning knob...
...tenuously plotted satirical review, Nixon! is a scattershot entertainment. As it traces the steps which lead poor Dick Nixon to blow up the world in the midst of the '72 elections (with a final Dr. Strangelove plot twist that the show's narrator brashly admits has been stolen from the film). Nixon! verges on the sexist, racist, and anti-Semitic--not to mention, its occasional lapses of taste. Of course, it's all meant in a spirit of fun (right? yes, right would I put you on?) and the Yiddish words get the biggest laughs of all. (Would somebody please...