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...concept of ambulatory care-where someone comes in, sits on a hard wooden bench, and then sees a doctor he's never met before-is something we want to avoid," said Moore, who is Moseley Professor of Surgery at the Medical School...
Only Justice William O. Douglas agreed with Walz. Summarizing his dissent from the bench, Douglas wryly urged a "strict construction" of the First Amendment's ban on official establishment of religion. In his view, tax exemption subverts the ban because it favors religion at the expense of atheistic or agnostic groups. The result, said Douglas, violates the constitutional command of Government neutrality "between believers and nonbelievers...
There are nine large black chairs behind the bench of the Supreme Court in Washington. Each is of a different size, shape, and material, tailored for the justice who hits in it. President Nixon has found it impossible to fill the ninth chair on the Court, impossible to nominate a candidate acceptable to the Senate, which glares at the Court from across a tree shaded mall. His latest nominee for the Court, however, has passed easily through the Senate Judiciary Committee, and will probably get the approval of the whole Senate this week. Nixon has finally found a man with...
...prowess at the plate, Bench is also the best defensive receiver in the league. At 6 ft. 1 in. and 197 Ibs., he is well equipped for the rigors of the trade. He can smother wild pitches with either of his oversized hands, and his bazooka-like pegs prove his pronouncement that "I can throw out any base runner alive." The St. Louis Cardinals' Lou Brock did not believe it until he tried to run on Bench last season and stretch his skein of 21 consecutive stolen bases. End of skein...
...oral arguments this week involves a ban on the mm in Massachusetts; the Maryland ban is waiting in the wings. Although these cases could divide the court, they could also enable it to provide more guidance than the standards set in Fanny Hill Justice Brennan is still on the bench, but Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justice Abe Fortas, who joined him in that opinion, are gone. Douglas, who concurred is now out of the argument, at least for the Massachusetts case. Brennan's only allies are likely to be Justice Potter Stewart who concurred in Fanny...