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Word: offing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1970
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Every student is asked to write an anonymous summary of the circumstances that led to his arrest. At sessions that often turn into group therapy, the classes discuss the summaries written by past students. Stewart has concluded that the D.W.I, offender is generally an individual under pressure, anxious about financial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: D.W.I.s Anonymous | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

Racial discrimination persists in death as well as life. Many private cemeteries in both the North and South make contracts with their customers that contain racial restrictions specifying who shall be buried where. Last week, however, a U.S. district court in Alabama toppled such monuments to segregation when it ordered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Integrating the Graveyard | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

Before going to Viet Nam last March, Terry, 20, told his wife that when he died he wanted to be buried in Elmwood Cemetery, which is near his childhood home. Terry Was cut down on a search-and-destroy mission last July. When Elmwood rejected his family's application...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Integrating the Graveyard | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

"A black law student is a strange animal," says Norbert Simmons, a Negro in his first year at Boston University Law School. "He has to learn to use the very things that have been used against him. It's a tremendous strain to go completely establishmentarian for three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Learning the White Man's Law | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

Too few are taking their places-not only for lack of money, but also because young Negroes commonly distrust the law in practice. Many see it in terms of white police and white judges using white law against blacks. The upshot is that only 2% of U.S. lawyers are black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Learning the White Man's Law | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

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