Word: burger
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...champion last month in Mrs. Virginia Knauer, President Nixon's adviser on consumer affairs. Now that other national staple, the hamburger, has picked up an ally in Bess Myerson Grant, New York City's Commissioner of Consumer Affairs. The onetime (1945) Miss America has discovered that burger beef, like hot-dog meat, is being adulterated with all sorts of things: soy proteins, starchy flour, cereal and chemical additives. As a matter of fact, 156 out of 421 New York restaurants checked by her 46 inspectors were suspected of serving "shamburgers." So she has revived a long-neglected section...
...presumption of innocence, in criminal cases, Burger suggested, may be inconsistent with American civil procedure: "Certainly you have heard-and judges have said-that one should not convict a man out of his own mouth, The fact is that we establish responsibility and liability and we convict in all the areas of civil litigation out of the mouth of the defendant...
...Burger also questioned the practice of barring from court evidence obtained in violation of a law or a constitutional right (such as that gained by illegal wiretap). And he accused defense lawyers of "clogging the system by an excess of zeal" when they use every available legal means to clear their client...
...much of Burger's philosophy will emerge in the form of specific decisions is uncertain. He will have just one vote in nine. Still, the view from the Chief Justice's chair will be markedly different from what it has been during the 16 years that Earl Warren has occupied...
...rules. William J. Brennan Jr. canceled several lectures, prepared to liquidate his $15,000 share in a Virginia real estate venture, and withdrew from the faculty of the Appellate Judges' Seminar, an annual course at the New York University Law School. Incoming Chief Justice Warren Burger has indicated that he will give up his $2,000-a-year fee as a trustee of the Mayo Foundation...