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...lengthening catalogue of legal shifts that have occurred since Warren Burger took over the court is described in a new book by Lawyer and TIME Correspondent James F. Simon. In His Own Image: The Supreme Court in Richard Nixon's America (McKay; $7.95) is the first comprehensive study of the latest transformation of the nation's highest bench. As such it is a thoroughgoing, readable and up-to-date supplementing of Mr. Dooley's 1901 observation that "no matther whether th' Constitution follows th' flag or not, th' Supreme Court follows th' iliction...
...order resolve to "strengthen the peace forces as against the criminal forces." But Nixon can only choose the Justices; the power to decide cases remains with them. Simon clearly illustrates the different uses of that power in two fine and scrupulously fair portraits of Earl Warren and Warren Burger, the lookalike, think-apart Chiefs. Warren is shown cutting through the legalities to ask "But is it fair?" In his opinions Warren "galloped past the problems to his conclusion," Simon observes. He exemplified "honesty, fairness, patriotism and idealism...
Manhattan's Bun & Burger chain has removed sliced onions from its lunch counters, keeping instead an emergency supply of chopped onions hidden away and given only to those customers "who insist they cannot eat a hamburger without them." Customers have generally been cooperative because, as one short-order cook put it, "they are not buying onions for their homes either." At Manhattan's Soup Burg, they claim that the cost of raw onion per hamburger is up to 70 or 80. "It's getting to be the most expensive part of the hamburger," says...
...Earl Warren's Supreme Court expressed its wariness of lineups by holding that an indicted suspect was entitled to have his lawyer present to prevent at least the obvious inequities. But the Burger Court last year cut into that right by refusing to apply it before the suspect has been indicted. Thus police now often delay formal charges until after the lineup...
...started doing a little bit at a time." As his confidence grew, he went into more complex tasks, such as rebuilding his engine. Says Russo: "The mystery of mechanics isn't so mysterious any more." Working near by on his wife's old Buick, Law Student Ernest Burger remarks: "I'm actually acting out a childhood fantasy." Many people have always itched to play mechanic, but lacked encouragement until the new garages came along...