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...institute has published a splendid catalogue, well researched and written by Suzanne Foley, Caroline Zinsser, and Francis Brennan, and available for only a dollar. Every work in the exhibit is reproduced, with appropriate commentary--the whole introduced by an essay on the history and peculiar problems of portraiture...
...dissents were strong. Chief Justice Earl Warren, Justice William Brennan and Justice William O. Douglas held that forced registration means forced self-incrimination-in violation of the Fifth Amendment. Justice Hugo Black argued that the First Amendment freedoms "must be accorded to the ideas we hate, or sooner or later they will be denied to the ideas we cherish...
These "judicial activists" are Chief Justice Earl Warren, Justices William O. Douglas, William Brennan and Hugo Black, who, at 75, is their patriarch. Their often-cited guide is the First Amendment, which they hold is clear and absolute: "Congress shall make no law" abridging the freedoms of speech, religion, press and peaceable assembly...
...this session, the court has split on 25 key cases of individual rights v. Government responsibilities. Not counting the cases in which they did not participate, Frankfurter and Harlan have sided with the Government 17 times, Clark 19 times and Whittaker 22 times. On the other side, Brennan has supported the individual 16 times, Warren 17 times, Black 18 times and Douglas 22 times. Stewart has split almost evenly-12 times for the individual, 13 times for the Government. Last year, the Justices divided their votes in much the same proportion...
Died. Owen Bernard ("Bert") Brennan, 57, rough, tough-talking Teamster Union vice president since 1957, mentor and close friend of Jimmy Hoffa ("the greatest little bastard who ever put a pair of shoes on"); of cancer; in Detroit. A $15-a-week wagon driver who rose by his skill as a skull-cracking labor organizer, Brennan sported a lengthy arrest record (assault, bombing, antitrust violations), co-starred with Hoffa in close-mouthed appearances before the Senate labor-rackets committee...