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...voting with his district was not nearly as easy as it sounded. Capitol Hill is 500 miles from Lansing, Mich.; the political stand that appears perfectly obvious in Washington may be twisted completely out of shape by the Sixth District's crosscurrents. It was up to Chamberlain to assess correctly the interests of his district on all the hundreds of issues coming up in the House...
Both candidates howled for Baggs's scalp and vainly tried to track down vacationing Publisher Daniel J. Mahoney. Editor Baggs happily summoned his board to assess candidates in other races...
...biggest and juiciest chunk of the California orange. Berkeley's trees have had time to grow, and its faculty, mature and luminous, includes six Nobel laureates (among them: Radiation Laboratory Physicists Ernest Lawrence and Edwin McMillan, Chemist Glenn Seaborg). Partisans compare Berkeley, not always defensively, with Harvard, fairly assess their school as stronger in the physical sciences, less impressive in the humanities...
Time will be necessary to assess this curriculum's long-run effects, for it has been in complete operation in the eighth and ninth grades for only three years and is only just now being expanded into the tenth grade. It has had seven years of experiment in the eighth grade and as an idea its history is much older than that...
...said Justice Harold H. Burton, writing the Supreme Court majority opinion (joined by Felix Frankfurter, Tom Clark, William Brennan, Charles Evans Whittaker and John Marshall Harlan). Even assuming that the Taft-Hartley Act permits the NLRB to assess unions for back pay in certain cases, that, said Burton, would not prevent a plaintiff from seeking full damages in state courts. To hold otherwise, he wrote, would "grant to unions a substantial immunity" from the consequences of illegal mass picketing or coercion...