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...college work. There was a promise of change in 1900 when the University of Chicago required college diplomas for law school admission, and duly began granting the graduate-level J.D. Impressed, the Harvard law faculty voted to follow suit. And the 1904 Harvard Law Review, which boasted editors like Felix Frankfurter, assailed "the anomaly of requiring a bachelor's degree for admission, and granting only a degree of the same nature at the end of the three years' course." But the university administration refused to abandon the bachelor's degree, and vetoed the law faculty...
...suspicious injuries are presumed guilty of abuse-and must prove otherwise or lose custody of their child. Until now, many of the country's "battered children" (10,000 a year) lacked such protection because few can speak and their parents shield one another. Brooklyn Family Court Judge Harold Felix has attacked all that in the case of an infant whom a hospital found suffering from broken legs and ribs. Charged with abuse, the parents sought dismissal for lack of evidence against them. Judge Felix invoked the negligence-law principle of res ipsa loquitur (the thing speaks for itself). When...
...Fountain Cafe in Central Park. And, though it really caught on in Paris only this summer, a surprising number of U.S. bartenders have already learned to whip up "un Kir": a mixture of dry white wine and crème de cassis (black-currant liqueur), named for Canon Felix Kir, who also doubles as the Mayor of Dijon. So far, mercifully, returning American tourists have resisted importing one new drink that has already swept Italy and has become the standard order at Sibylla's, London's swingingest discotheque. The mix: Scotch and Coca-Cola...
...meeting of African political leaders, Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah chided the Ivory Coast's Felix Houphouet-Boigny for being "pro-colonialist." Retorted Houphouet-Boigny: "We will meet again in ten years, and then we will see which of us has done better for his country." They did not need to wait a decade to know the answer. Today, Nkrumah is in exile, Ghana is practically bankrupt-and the Ivory Coast is Black Africa's most flourishing young country...
There are several notable examples of good government. In the Ivory Coast, President Felix Houphouet-Boigny-who before independence served as French Minister of Overseas Territories -is building a booming economy that has raised the living standards of his people enormously. Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere has managed to absorb Communist-minded Zanzibar without falling prey to the Reds, last year promoted a unique experiment in one-party elections: his Tanzania Africa National Union put up two candidates for each post, with the result that several of his own Cabinet ministers were defeated. Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta...