WALL STREET: Just Lead Me Along ...

In an oak-paneled courtroom in Manhattan's Federal Court House last week, Judge Harold R. Medina peered down from his bench at an array of more than 30 lawyers. Pleasantly, he advised them: "Just lead me along like a child and explain to me how it works."

Judge Medina, who had found out at the trial of the eleven Reds how the Communist Party works, this time faced a problem just as complex. He was sitting in judgment (without a jury) on the Government's long-awaited antitrust suit against 17 of the nation's top investment...

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