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Controversy keeps dogging Louis Elwood Wolfson. On grounds that he had milked the company of millions, the Government in 1956 refused to renew his contract to run the Capital Transit bus-and-trolley line in Washington, D.C. In 1958, Merritt-Chapman & Scott Co., of which Wolfson is chairman and controlling shareholder, pleaded nolo contendere to charges of bribing a county official in Washington State to help win the big Priest Rapids Dam construction job; the company paid a penalty of $50,000. Also that year, the Securities & Exchange Commission charged that Wolfson tried to drive down the market in American...
...Robert Wolfson, an economist with the System Development Corp. in Santa Monica, Calif., says that it would almost certainly have lowered the standard of living. "In the short run," declares Wolfson, "a booming birth rate is good for business. But in the long run, we are consuming things we can't replace, like physical space. We've reached this point...
...with no warrant the police nabbed Grace, Danny and two of his friends, Bobby Chan, 17, and Benny Di Gerlando, 18. While detectives questioned them for 14½ hours at the city's ugly grey police headquarters, Chan's mother got in touch with Lawyer Warren Wolfson, who had once represented Danny in a personal-injury case. Because no one talked, Wolfson was finally able to get the whole crew released. By then, though, the cops had a theory: Danny & Co. had done Grace the favor of liquidating a hated husband...
...days later, they persuaded Di Gerlando to finger Danny as the killer. Rushed back to headquarters along with Grace and Chan, Danny was hustled into an interrogation room with his hands manacled behind his back. No one warned him of his rights to silence and to counsel. Once more, Wolfson hurried to the station house. He and Danny got a brief glimpse of each other through a half-open door, but the police told the lawyer that Danny
...doesn't know you," refused to let Danny see Wolfson. In vain, Wolfson cited an Illinois statute that guarantees such consultation "except in cases of imminent danger of escape...