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...phenomenal shot with his long-barreled rifle. Yet at the mere sight of a church-going girl, Gracie Williams, whom he wanted to marry, he put away his jug, joined the Possum Trot Church choir, turned piously religious. Above all, he took to heart the Sixth Commandment: THOU SHALT NOT KILL...
...this points toward an ideal envisioned by the late Learned Hand, the greatest U.S. judge who never sat on he Supreme Court. "If we are to keep our democracy," he said, "there must be one commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice." Knowledgeable lawyers would add that such rationing has a dangerous practical effect: the victims grow increasingly disrespectful of the police and the courts. But the new drive for equal justice also saddles the nation's 200,000 private-practice lawyers with the duty of fully defending more than 150,000 indigents a year...
...Thou Shalt Not. The New York state legislature last April passed two bills making it a misdemeanor to take ice and requiring standard accounting procedures for all productions. Then last week the League of New York Theaters -which includes theater owners and producers-announced its own new codes of ethics covering ticket sales and production practices. In many instances the rules were more rigid than the state legislation...
...League has asked Lawyer John F. Wharton to serve as its commissioner, enforcing the new codes. The production code is a long list of thou-shalt-nots that inferentially describes all the sleazy habits of producers at the moment: it forbids them to commingle investors' money with their own personal funds; it requires them to keep books; it forbids them to take kickbacks; it says they have to notify investors if they rent their own property to the production...
...reported that Senator Goldwater said, "You can't pass a law that will make me like you or you like me." For the Senator's information, there already are such laws on the statute books of man: "And thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" (Lev. 19:18) and "Love ye therefore the stranger" (Deut...