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While Los Angeles cannot claim to have invented the certificate of readiness, it makes unusual use of it. The court's master calendar department feeds these details into a computer along with each lawyer's schedule for the next three months, then chooses a desirable trial date which...
Back to the Machine. Los Angeles lawyers, to be sure, are still allowed to arrive at trial and ask for continuances, but judges now accept only substantial excuses, such as the unavoidable absence of expert medical witnesses. Continuances are granted in only 20% of civil suits, almost half the previous...
The world is in the midst of the greatest technological advance in its history-and the U.S. has been in the vanguard of that advance. As Gertrude Stein observed, the U.S. is the world's oldest country because it was really the first to enter the 20th century. It...
The first new hymnal for Methodists since 1935, the revision was ordered by the church's General Conference in 1960. To find out what worshipers wanted, the editors, headed by the Rev. Carlton Young of Dallas, polled 12,800 ministers and laymen, fed their answers into a computer. The...
Tillinghast talks the sort of language that comes out of a well-fed computer. "My toughest job," he says, "is to figure out with some precision what the growth of the airline industry is going to be and then to order the right amount and kind of equipment. Profitability lies...