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...door to the Chief Justice's office. The carts contain petitions for certiorari (requests for review, the normal means by which most cases reach the court), briefs, transcripts, memos from clerks, notebooks-every Justice's file on virtually every case that may come up during the taxing all-day session. It usually takes two or three carts to hold each Justice's material; 20 or more of them surround the massive mahogany table and nine high-backed chairs by the time the first Justices arrive and begin making small talk while pouring themselves cups of coffee from...
...importance of the process. Says one hardy Justice: "I suppose a lot of people would think we've got it pretty easy-sitting there talking from 10 to 12:30 and from 1:15 to after 5. Well, I've done a lot of physical work and all-day hiking, and I've never been as tired as I usually am at the end of one of those conferences...
JUST over a year ago, George McGovern asked a group of liberal economists to an all-day meeting in Manhattan. The Senator said that he was determined to shed his image as a one-issue candidate and take firm positions on matters other than the war. He was especially eager to bear down on the then-flaccid economy. In effect, McGovern asked the group to become his economic brain trust...
...Corporation held an all-day meeting yesterday at 17 Quincy St., the former President's house, but failed to reach any final consensus, according to Bok and Francis H. Burr '35, Fellow of the Corporation...
...Nicolae Ceauşescu was punishing a group of opponents who last summer had participated in an unsuccessful plot to oust him. After Ceauşescu returned from an extended tour of China and the Far East last June, there were rumors about coup attempts in Bucharest. At an all-day meeting of regional party leaders, Ceauşescu was criticized -and reportedly even booed-for having made passionately pro-Chinese statements during his trip that unnecessarily annoyed the Russians. For the moment, Ceauşescu remains in control. But the lack of success of his Western-oriented economic experiments...