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Ever since Howard Hughes died in an air ambulance over Texas early last month, a frantic search has been under way to find the will of the reclusive billionaire. Unless a valid last testament is found, Hughes' vast estate, estimated at $2.3 billion, is certain to become the subject of the largest probate battle of all time. Last week what was said to be Hughes' will suddenly appeared in Salt Lake City, but the document seemed more likely to cause new legal problems than to resolve the old ones...
...long enough, in the U.S. competitive system, for a company to have a market all to itself and of how sound the legal basis is for Polaroid's suit. Kodak brushed off the suit. In a formal statement issued in the U.S., it denied knowingly violating any "valid" patents, and it promptly sued in Canada to have Polaroid's patents declared invalid...
...That since there was evidence of friction between Hartman and higher-ups in the planning department, the GSD and the University and since he had received "no satisfactory explanation of the decison [not to rehire] in terms of valid academic criteria," then it was a "fair inference that personal and political considerations violative of his rights had played a major role in the decision...
This has a certain J.S Millian ring to it. The theory that knowledge equals freedom, and that free discussion inevitably leads to social progress, is applied in this film only on an individual basis--it's each woman for herself. This is a valid approach for most of the issues the movie deals with. Women who object to the assembly-line impersonality of hospital births should know that they can give birth at home, assisted by a trained midwife. They should know that sometimes doctors order hysterectomies for convenience and that if a patient insists on it, sometimes her uterus...
...Chesterton praised fairy tales because they provided the child a "St. George to kill the dragon." For Poet W.H. Auden, a reading of the Grimm Brothers could serve to "restore to parents the right and the duty to educate their children." Between these two terminals there are millions of valid interpretations - as many as there are readers and critics. Pace Bettelheim, enchantment has more uses today than did once upon a time...