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...recession and its exhausting and hateful war-is the best year this country has ever seen. Given a choice, many Americans would put on a blindfold and pick out of a hat another year in which to live-any one of the past 500. But as Marie Twain, Lord Byron and countless other writers suggest, they would soon repent upon discovering that there is no such thing as a golden age. The past is an illusion just as much as the future; it is Utopia in reverse...
Another top performer for the Big Green is high jumper Tom Byron, who cleared 6' 8" during the indoor season...
...hours envelope stuffing at a peace group's headquarters. Until last week there had been a noticeable cooling of the close relationship between Hoover and top Justice Department officials. The names of possible successors cropped up in private conversations at the department. Most frequently mentioned: Supreme Court Justice Byron White...
...divided U.S. Supreme Court saved the Government's case, holding that neither state nor federal agents need warrants to rig their informants with bugs. Four Justices felt bound by a line of cases holding that an individual has no constitutional right to protection from informers. "Inescapably," wrote Justice Byron White for the majority, "one contemplating illegal activities must realize and risk that his companions may be reporting to the police." White found the addition of a hidden third party to the conversation an unpersuasive argument to challenge the constitutionality of the surveillance. According to White, if a companion...
...Court itself opened the door for Mitchell in 1967, when it made its original ruling that the Fourth Amendment protects phone conversations from unreasonable search and seizure-just as it protects someone's home. Presumably, the Fourth Amendment protects all phone conversations equally, but when one Supreme Court Justice-Byron White-stated that the Court should not require a warrant in national security cases, only Justices Douglas and Brennan wrote arguments opposing him. Two years later-when the Justice Department was caught using evidence against Muhammed Ali that it had obtained inadvertently through its standard, if crude, practice of wiretapping...