Notebook: Jun. 29, 1998

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$83,870: Price fetched for a 1952 Andy Pafko baseball card at the auction

Sources: USA Today, PRIDE, National Institutes of Health, Restaurants USA, Chicago Tribune, AP, Buffalo News, USA Today

60 SECOND SYMPOSIUM

Our dream team of defense attorneys, Robert Bennett, Roy Black and Johnnie Cochran, considered this question: Which historic figure would you wish to have had as a client?

BENNETT (attorney for President Clinton): "I would like to have defended the Molly Maguires against the coal-company lawyers who prosecuted the Irish-Catholic immigrant miners charged with murder. Pennsylvania provided the courtroom and the hangmen. All else was done by private persons in the pay of coal-mine owners. Anti-Irish Catholic feeling was persuasive; due process was ignored."

BLACK (attorney for William Kennedy Smith): "Bill Gates' fame and fortune have framed him as the latest high-profile target of rapacious prosecutors. He had the unmitigated temerity to pursue and, worse, achieve the American Dream by outthinking, outselling and outprofiting the competition."

COCHRAN (attorney for O.J. Simpson): "Jesus is the person I would like to have defended. I would have relished the opportunity to defend someone who was completely innocent of all charges and a victim of religious persecution. However, because of his mission here, he would have undoubtedly declined."