Word: burger
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...Spain, political change is only half the story. As if to make up for their long night of denial, Spaniards are luxuriating in the arts, in a taste for consumer goods, in a relaxation of old mores. The new freedom has already spurred a renaissance in journalism and film. Burger Kings and jeans are in. Only two years ago, a policeman ordered a picture of Goya's Naked Maja removed from a bookstore window because it was "filth." Today the operative word is des-tape (uncovering)?as the stacks of gamy magazines on newsstands amply demonstrate...
...today, litigation is steadily becoming more complicated, more pervasive, more time consuming and more expensive. That fact is clear enough to any ordinary citizen with a tax problem or a difficult divorce, and no one has expressed more concern about it than Chief Justice Warren Burger. His warning: "We may be well on our way to a society overrun by hordes of lawyers, hungry as locusts, and brigades of judges in numbers never before contemplated." The warning is somewhat exaggerated, but some major American cases do indeed keep expanding until they become ends in themselves, seemingly capable of lasting forever...
...separation of church and state. On one hand, it forbade civil authorities to require Amish children to attend public schools until the age of 16; on the other, it has knocked down all new attempts to finance parochial schools with public funds. Says Virginia Law Professor A.E. Howard: "The Burger court has virtually written the book on religious freedom. This court has shown no reluctance to tackle these First Amendment problems with a constitutional theory firmly in mind...
Warren E. Burger, LL.D., Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court. Joel Sussman, LL.D., President. Supreme Court of Israel...
...canal from becoming a highway-in 1954 he led conservationists on an eight-day hike from Georgetown to Cumberland, Md., to publicize the cause. At the dedication ceremonies, Douglas' wife Cathy unveiled a bust of her husband as six Supreme Court Justices, including Chief Justice Warren Burger, looked on. "Thanks for coming, Chief," smiled Douglas. "This has to be a quorum." Though he looked frail and gaunt in his wheelchair, he made some appropriate ad lib remarks in a thin, reedy voice and promised his audience to get well and hike again "the whole distance...