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...argument against judges is that a broader man is often to be found elsewhere. And some see Supreme Court Justices as a breed apart-historians, prophets, politicians and philosophers, as well as judges. "The correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the Supreme Court," declared Felix Frankfurter, "is zero...
Meanwhile, a new breed, a much more solemn breed had begun to arrive in the park. Many had travelled all night in the buses that pulled up along the west side of Central Park. There were hundreds of buses and they came from Cleveland, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Atlanta, from all over the East...
...Brien's reorganization scheme, a top Post Office official remarked that "if anyone can put it across, he can." Which would make the Postmaster General not only the best of his breed but also the last...
Evening Peak. Since the flying medics were a special breed, exposed to enemy fire for only an hour or two at a stretch and not every day at that, Dr. Bourne wanted to study the reactions of ground forces in constant danger and therefore under continuing stress. To do this, he and Technician William M. Coli joined a Green Beret detachment of two officers and ten enlisted men stationed at Due Co, southwest of Pleiku and only a few miles from the Ho Chi Minh trail. The Green Berets had good reason to be edgy. The study began during...
What makes Sam particularly valuable is that the Charolais is a relatively new and increasingly popular breed in the U.S. The first Charolais in North America were brought to Mexico from their native France in the 1920s. But for years U.S. foot-and-mouth-disease restrictions and Mexican law allowed them to trickle north of the border only periodically. Nonetheless, the creamy-white, deep-chested Charolais quickly caught on with U.S. cattlemen because they are one of the world's heaviest breeds. They grow faster than most cattle; after weaning, many gain 100 lbs. a month. Two years...