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Bernard M. Baruch was a millionaire at 30, a celebrated national figure at 50, and-as park-bench philosopher, adviser to Presidents and reaper of honors-a legend by the time he was 70. As with most legends, this one was somewhat larger than life, a fact that Baruch himself wryly recognized, but behind it, nevertheless, was a most remarkable man. Last week, two months before he would have turned 95, Bernard Baruch died in Manhattan of a heart attack...
...health." That philosophy did not endear him to the New Deal, but during World War II, F.D.R. nonetheless named him special adviser to the Office of War Mobilization. In the early war years, Baruch occasionally met with Harvard President James Bryant Conant and M.I.T. President Karl Comptonon an oak bench in Lafayette Park, opposite the White House, to discuss an official report on rubber resources. That bench -facing the wrong end of an equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson-became Baruch's symbol...
...team, the Dodgers have the fourth lowest batting average (.247) in the National League, have hit fewer home runs (37) than anybody in either league. Worse yet, they have, in three months, suffered 29 "disabling" injuries -meaning that each was bad enough to put the injured party on the bench or in a hospital. Centerfielder Willie Davis, who batted .294 and stole 42 bases last year, has a rib separation; Leftfielder Tommy Davis, the National League's batting champion in 1962 and 1963, has already missed eight weeks with a broken ankle...
...American Revolution by providing that the King should levy no taxes except by "general consent" of the kingdom. Chapters 17 through 19 laid to rest the practice of meting out justice only through the King's traveling court, led to permanently based courts (Common Pleas, King's Bench, Chancery and Exchequer) set up to deal with everything from debts to divorces...
...State Supreme Court, while agreeing that the present appor tionment was unconstitutional, asserted its own jurisdiction, gave the senate until this July 1 to realign itself. The federal court refused to yield jurisdiction. But the Supreme Court ordered the federal court to step aside and give the Illinois bench "a reasonable time" to achieve reapportionment. - Declined to rule on the constitutionality of an Idaho reapportionment plan, adopted by the legislature last March, and passed the question back to a three-judge federal court...