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...inevitably compared with F. Lee Bailey, a more recently risen criminal lawyer. The main difference between them lies in the cases they handle. Bailey specializes in violence-tinged sensation involving such up-from-nowhere types as Dr. Samuel Sheppard, Carl Coppolino and the Boston Strangler. Williams is more the seeker of equal justice for well-known but scandal-haunted clients...
...average thrill seeker, if there is such a type, may still be high on LSD. But to serious researchers, it has become as old hat as peyote and marijuana. Meeting last week at San Francisco's University of California Medical Center, 200 experts in psychiatry and pharmacology concentrated instead on the many other mind-altering drugs that are far older historically but now seem new because they have yet to be thoroughly investigated...
Died. Donald Campbell, 45, British speed seeker; in the crack-up of his jet-powered boat; on Coniston Water, England (see SPORT...
...once again "polarizing dangerously to ward left and right." King Constantine, Sulzberger speculated, might "even temporarily suspend some of the Constitution" to meet the threat presented by "former Premier George Papandreou, the country's most popular demagogue, and his son Andreas, an engaging but arrogantly ambitious power-seeker, increasingly linked to the far-out left...
...gathering was a happening and not a lecture: "have you ever looked at a tree?" Krishnamurti asked and inquisitive truth-seeker. All his questions were rhetorical and it was embarrassing when people broke in to answer them...