Word: brennans
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...Marshall charged that the court's decision would "brutally coerce poor women to bear children," and said that he was "appalled at the ethical bankruptcy of those who preach a 'right to life' that means a bare existence in utter misery for so many." Justice William Brennan claimed the decision "seriously erodes" the principle, set forth by the court in its historic 1973 ruling, that it is unconstitutional for Government to interfere with a woman's choice whether or not to have an abortion...
...Mitchell: "It seems to me that the court did not do its homework-or at least that seven Justices did not-because the decision distorts the clear intent of Congress. Congress did not intend to preserve a discriminatory seniority system." The two dissenting Justices, Thurgood Marshall and William J. Brennan, called the decision "devastating." They said it worked against the spirit of the court's own ruling last year that retroactive seniority must be granted to workers who can prove job bias (TIME, April...
...saying it's heaven. But it's at least across the hall." In this case, near-Valhalla is the forthcoming Bogart spoof, Cheap Detective, set in 1940s San Francisco. Written by Simon, it stars Falk along with Louise Fletcher, Ann-Margret, Marsha Mason, Eileen Brennan, Stockard Channing and Madeline Kahn. A natty Falk makes time with all six ladies while stumbling up against the Gestapo on a hunt for precious gems that look like birds' eggs-a kind of Maltese omelet...
...Nudes. Some of the farmers who owned the barns balked at first. "They wanted to be sure we wouldn't have any nudes or anything," says Cindy Brennan, 18, who worked on the Hennessey bright barn of portraits. With the farmer won over, the whole community would pitch in with the spirit of a pioneer barn raising. Local merchants contributed paintbrushes, rollers, tarps and scaffolding. Adult volunteers provided transportation and meals. Pittsburgh Plate Glass and Sears, Roebuck supplied the paint. As many as 15 to 25 teen-agers helped plot the design, scaled it up on the barn wall...
...property near Laguna Beach in his Lincoln Continental. His escorting Secret Service agents scoured the house for hidden microphones and made certain that Smith's collection of some 100 rifles and shotguns were all unloaded. Nixon was usually accompanied by the key members of his team: Colonel Jack Brennan, his former White House military aide; Chief Researcher Ken Khachigian; former Speechwriter Ray Price; former Press Assistant Diane Sawyer; and Richard Moore, the former White House aide who was a sympathetic figure in the Senate Watergate hearings. Nixon's people were told what topics would be covered, but never the questions...