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...trainmen "to gather together" and seek "the wisest counsel" in pursuit of their legal rights. In sharp dissent, Justice Tom Clark argued that the decision "overthrows state regulation of the legal profession and relegates the practice of law to the level of a commercial enterprise." Even so, Railroad Trainmen v. Virginia means that lay organizations across the U.S. may now attempt all sorts of experimental group plans to put more lawyers in touch with more people who need them. Conceivably, the result may one day lead to a legal-service Blue Cross...
...drown myself wittingly it argues an act; and an act hath three branches; it is, to act, to do, and to perform: argal, she drowned herself wittingly." But Shakespeare's audience instantly got the message: the sophistry is a satire on a real-life trial (Hales v. Petit) concerning a judge who also lost his reason and drowned himself near Canterbury. When the coroner's jury ruled felo-de-se (suicide), Judge Hale's estate was forfeited to the Crown. Countering in court, his widow roused a wild debate over whether Hale's felonious...
...V. Lee Archer '65, of Eliot House and Wichita, Kan., was elected president of Harvard Student Agencies, Inc. for 1964-65 yesterday. Archer succeeds Bradford K. Perry '64 as head of the nearly $2 million student enterprise...
When the Marquis of Vélez, a man of magnificence, brought in a handful of Italian stonemasons to work on his patio, he was bringing the Renaissance to the feudal, long-Moorish plains of Andalusia. He was only 28 when he ordered the work begun in 1506, but the marquis was a Latin scholar and an eager follower of Columbus' early voyages to the "Western antipodes." His patronage made the patio a triumph of transition from darkness to light...
Moved by the significance of the new program, and doubtless by the arrival of spring, French Finance Minister Valéry Giscard D'Estaing composed a poem to mark the occasion. Giscard, who once donned a V-necked sweater to give his own anti-inflation program a soft, living-room sell over French TV, outlined the battle against inflation in the form of the Ten Commandments...