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Double Doors. More than a third of the lawyer-legislators continue to practice law while holding office. In some instances, they resort to dual-partnership or "double-door" practice: two law firms are created, one with and one without the congressional partner. The Congressman's firm takes no cases that involve appearances before federal agencies, because that is illegal. Instead, it refers such business to the partner firm. Two Representatives who have participated in double-door practices are Emanuel Celler, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and Jacob Gilbert, both of New York. Among those on the banking committee...
...Pyrenean citadel town of Mont-Louis, where the sun shines as many as 200 days a year, he has since built five larger solar furnaces. Now, in masterly style, he has created his piéce de résistance on a hillside in the nearby ski resort of Odeillo. Compared with similar devices in several other countries, such as the U.S. Army's 30-kilowatt stove at Natick, Mass., Odeillo's 1,000-kilowatt structure is easily the Mount Palomar of solar furnaces...
Madness and violence are seen as the tragic lengths individuals and societies will resort to in order to prevent the obliteration of their identities or collective memories. The great fear is that of being stranded in a void, of being so alone that one's very existence is in doubt. As Miss Frame expresses it in the poetry that threads the novel: "It is the company of weather I crave in this weatherless room/the thermometer reads me only." In the Waipori of the future, the problem of establishing existence would be even more terrifying. If a plastic tree topples...
...soldiers at Ang Tasom and Takeo, the provincial capital, closing two key highways linking Phnom-Penh with southern ports. Roughly 100 miles northeast of Phnom-Penh, Communist troops blew up a bridge and occupied a town in Kratie province. Another force, attacking by boat, raided the upper-crust Cambodian resort of Kep on the Gulf of Siam, where they set fire to municipal buildings and killed several civilians before escaping...
Martin, 55, a former U.S. court tennis champion, may be just the man to solve the problem. Last week he allowed that if the I.L.T.F. does not relax its old policies, he will as a last resort withdraw the U.S. from the federation. Advantage, Mr. Martin...