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8 Docket Call 1 (1973)

handle is hein.abarchive/dockcalog0008 and id is 1 raw text is: Dean Rusk, Chairrrien. Advisory COmmittee of the International Ex- chanr of AtRr rn*Vs Comm rnta. haices S Rhne, President, Word Peace Through Law Center OYM&L.26-31, 1973, the SIXTH WORLD CON- FERENCE on WORLD PEACE THROUGH LAW and the FOURTH WORLD ASSEMBLY OF JUDGES will be held in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, West Africa. The Con- ference is sponsored by the World Peace Through Law Center, and it is another milestone in the ever growing effort of judges and lawyers to help establish an effective and acceptable international legal order to replace violent :onflict as a means of settling disputes. It also covers all transnational contacts and relations and common domestic concerns in the law field. (Continued on page 8) OF . Retirement: What is your instant reaction to that word? Pleasant? Unpleasant? Not interested? Fifty years ago, retirement was the Golden Dream, sought by many, achieved by few. When Grandfather was no longer able to cycle to his shop, his family scrounged a rocking chair, a cane and a spittoon and Grandpa lived out his years, humbly and grumbly, on a rotating succession of front porches. But this was not the Golden Dream. The Real Thing featured wintering in Florida, a Packard, a maid or two and envious contemporaries. retirement golden dream or dreary nightmare? Since those days, awesome changes have taken place: the automobile and airplane, affluence, longer and healthier lives, plus Social Security made the Dream available to more and more people. Sweet slogans appeared: Freedom from Care, The Golden Years, Taking Life Easy, but in time, the true picture emerged. Retirement for many began to resemble ar' aging stripteaser: take away the tinsel and beads and what was left was a bit disappointing. Simone de Beauvoir has written a book called Coming of Age, the Age being 65, which Madame has just reached. She feels that most over-sixty-fivers are disenchanted and my investigation forces me to agree, but I am in accord with the great Maurice Chevalier who, when asked how it seemed to be old, replied, It is better than the alternative. When I was asked to write this article, I weighed my credentials: First, my wife and I have spent most of our travel time in the last 30 years in numerous retirement areas. Second, I left a 35-year law practice in 1967 and have lived for the past five years on an increasingly popular retirement-vacation island in the West Indies - St. Maarten; and, third, I have in 1972 attained THAT AGE: 66. My first discovery that all was not golden with retirement came when my father, who had no hobbies or interests, retired at the age of 60. He had appallingly good health, and spent the remaining 27 years of his life being vigorously and violently bored. Those 27 years of family warfare brutally convinced me that Planned Retirement was tremendously important and I began doing something about it in my early forties. My wife and I have the good fortune of sharing an aptitude for art. I deny that we are talented, an alibi word that enables far too many people to sit on their duffs and try nothing. We chose art as our retirement thing and from 1950 to 1965 we spent the equivalent of two and one-half years in a variety of adult art education (Continued on page 16) Copyright 01973 Amercan Bar Association editor's guest Cuede S. Rhyne contents 1 EDITORS GUEST RETIREMENT 2 RATING LAWYERS 4 THE SECTION WHATS UP WHATS IN 6 THE CASE OF THE SOLO PRACTITIONER 10 VIDEOTAPE 12 INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE OF ATTORNEYS WHITHER UMVARA 14 EXAMINING CONDOMINIUM DOCUMENTS 15 NEWSRELEASE