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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Potential riots are far from the only problem. Los Angeles recorded an 8.1% crime rise in 1967 over 1966. Because of its sprawling size, which isolates branch offices and gives any getaway car 1,000 escape routes, it is No. 1 in bank robberies. Because of its proximity to Mexico, it is the marijuana capital of the world. The L.A.P.D. seized 21 tons of grass last year, enough to orbit a good-size army. Because of its balmy climate, it has, notes the chief, a "twelvemonth crime culture...
...constitution also creates a separate executive branch for the Premier, who, once in office, will be virtually independent of the Parliament. The electoral system for selecting the 150 members of Parliament is designed to give big parties the edge by allotting them nonelected members on the basis of their strength at the polls. The junta naturally intends to organize its own party, which it is confident will gain enough favor with Greek voters to take advantage of such a provision. The constitution makes room for new blood in Greek politics by barring many old-time Greek politicians, including Andreas Papandreou...
...third branch of the U.S. Government is intimate, unhurried and arcane, almost totally devoid of pomp or visible drama. Yet the Supreme Court's decisions affect every American, living and unborn. And it is the final, irrevocable judge of every President and Congress. Thus last week, when Lyndon Johnson nominated Associate Justice Abe Fortas to be the 15th Chief Justice of the United States, his selection was almost as significant as the election of a new President in November. A President cannot be elected more than twice. A Chief Justice can remain at the head of the world's most...
Productive & Exciting. Last week, however, most eyes focused on the court that has been rather than the one that will be. By any accounting, the Warren court has been the most influential since the Marshall court (1801-35) established the judiciary as the true third branch of the federal system and, with its decisions, laid the legal groundwork for a strong central government in the U.S. Yet, as Fred Rodell, the Yale Law School's Supreme Court specialist, points out, "John Marshall had 34 years to do what he did. Warren did his fantastic work in only...
...will ever need. One young Mellon flew in from Bombay, where he had been hunting tigers, and will shortly return to his real job of collecting wild animals in Kenya. Dr. Matthew T. Mellon, a retired art-history professor who, at 71, is the eldest male in the U.S. branch of the family, stayed with the Duke of Abercorn - which is more than his grandparents ever did. Dr. Mellon has not been in Pittsburgh for years; he has houses in Jamaica, Kitzbuhel and Manhattan...