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...disclosed that Fortas' former law partner had raised $15,000 in speaker's fees for Fortas, and that some of the donors had cases before the high court. Fortas' many connections in high places have gained him a reputation for wheeling and dealing in areas not uncommon for a corporate lawyer but of questionable propriety for a Supreme Court Justice. One fellow lawyer described Fortas as simply "avaricious." It is no secret that Fortas' cigar-smoking wife Carolyn was furious when L.B.J. named Fortas to the bench: he exchanged a law practice worth about...
...BRAIN AND EYES. High blood pressure increases the risk of strokes of both major kinds-the thromboembolic, caused by traveling clots, and the hemorrhagic, in which a blood vessel bursts. Strokes are uncommon among women under 40, but several neurologists say they have seen as many as ten cases in a year among women on the Pill, where they used to see only one or two before the Pill. Both the increased blood pressure and the estrogen's effect on the clotting mechanism may be responsible. There are a few authenticated cases of severely impaired vision, even...
Some tutors in the department said last night that telling tutees the questions ahead of time was not an uncommon practice, but that more tutors were doing it this year than in the past...
...movies, which are consistently more erotic than any cabaret act, are keeping customers away. While the Block has the reputation of being one of the safest places in town to walk after dark-the cops give it very special attention-incidents of muggings and robbery are no longer uncommon. "They lure them out of here where there's all these lights and go up the street where it's quiet," a bartender explained. "They don't want to ruin a good thing...
...Varda, and at first glance her work and her husband's seem totally different. While he conjures up pastel never-never lands, she broods over such weighty matters as morality, predestination and the nature of reality. But husband and wife do have in com-BOULAT mon two uncommon traits: the ability to reduce everything to playground platitudes and a stylistic pomposity that serves only to accent the vacuity of their scripts. In Les Créatures, which Varda has dedicated to her husband, she has fashioned a kind of portrait of the artist in finger paints, a childish...