Word: 180th
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...court starts its 180th year next week, however, many observers look to Nixon's second appointee, Justice Harry A. Blackmun. A private, studious, moderate jurist of 61, Blackmun could emerge as the court's pivotal figure. He may have the deciding vote in many important cases. With Republican appointees in the majority, suggests University of Chicago Law Professor Philip Kurland, a leading court watcher, the Burger Court may steer slightly away from the Warren Court's judicial activism-but hardly toward the conservatism that "Vice President Agnew and Attorney General Mitchell are seeking to create...