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...Jack Dempsey is still not a man to count out, as his landlords have learned. It seems that the Inch Corp., a real-estate holding company, bought the building that houses Jack Dempsey's restaurant, a Broadway landmark for tourists and the prizefight crowd, in 1967. Since then, Inch has tried to evict Jack on the grounds that his lease is no longer valid. Taking him to court in June 1973, Inch was outpointed when Dempsey won the ruling. Bouncing back, Inch sued again in December. Last week a judge again gave Dempsey the decision. Even as Jack savored...
Despite the landmark decision, there are many areas in the U.S. where it is still difficult to obtain an abortion. A number of states have rewritten their laws to comply with the requirements of the court. But a survey by TIME correspondents round the country reveals that many of the old obstacles to abortion remain. A region-by-region report...
...Things Past, Marcel released a flood of memories by tasting a tea-soaked petite Madeleine. Others have found that a memory-jogging whiff of perfume, a word, a few notes of music can conjure up similar-and often realistic-recollections of events they experienced many years earlier. A landmark discovery was made by the great Canadian neurosurgeon, Wilder Penfield, when he found that he could stimulate memories electrically. Probing a patient's brain with an electrode in order to locate the source of her epileptic seizures, Penfield was amazed when the young woman recalled an incident from her childhood...
BOULEZ: LE MARTEAU SANS MAITRE (Columbia). A bright, precise contemporary landmark conducted by the bright, precise man who wrote it, Pierre Boulez...
...Detroit last week U.S. District Court Judge Damon Keith handed down an astonishingly stiff decision in what may become a landmark discrimination case. Ruling that the Detroit Edison Co. (the nation's eleventh largest utility) had systematically discriminated against blacks in hiring and advancement in a manner he labeled "deliberate and by design," Keith awarded the plaintiffs in the case a whopping $4,000,000 in punitive damages-believed to be the largest award of its kind ever in a job discrimination case. "Since these defendants have been extremely obdurate and intransigent in their determination to implement and perpetuate...