Carnegie study highlights discrimination in southern legal field
The Carnegie report shows black Mississippi lawyers rose from 3 in 1965 to 49 in 1973, yet one black attorney per 16,000 blacks remains. Whites have 3,200 lawyers for 1.4 million whites, a ratio of 450 to 1. Students failing Georgia bar exams and court challenges signal persistent barriers. Spearman names money as the main hurdle, warns of DeFunis v. Od pedag, and urges recruitment, funding, and job-market solutions to sustain black lawyers in the South.
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Blissful Blossom Seeley, vaudeville star, dies at 82
Blossom Seeley, born in San Francisco in 1891, rose as a song and dance vaudeville star known as The Hottest Girl in Town. Her career spanned decades with hits like The Frisco Toddler and Somebody Loves Me, and she appeared on Ed Sullivan in 1966 with her husband Benny Fields, after marriages to Joseph Kane and Richard Marquard.
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Brazilian wins world's largest lottery prize
Salvador Brazil young accountant’s assistant Francisco Couto Portela 25 won the world’s largest lottery prize after correctly predicting 13 Brazilian soccer match results. He earned 2,291,000 dollars from a bet under 60 cents, using the minimum two cruzeiros allowed.
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Experts say high blood pressure hits poor and rich alike
A Boston panel at the New England conference on community action against high blood pressure warned that about 25 million Americans have hypertension and at least half are unaware of the risk. They stressed social and economic factors in the disease and noted treatment can control most cases, reducing heart attack or stroke risk.
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