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THE LAW: Counsel for the Defense

"I am convinced," wrote Arthur Garfield Hays, "that the struggle itself whether temporarily won or lost, is what counts. To press for some cause bigger than oneself, however hopeless it may seem, is not necessarily noble. It's just about the best fun there is in life for people of my disposition." Last week a heart attack put an end to Lawyer Arthur Garfield Hays's 73 years of fun and fighting. Among his mourners at a Manhattan funeral parlor were Old Socialist Norman Thomas, Dr. Charles Francis Potter, champion of evolution and founder...

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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