Word: central
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...YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL brings the Bard to Central Park. Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, plays alternate evenings through Aug. 2. Artistic Director Gerald Freedman guides Stacy Keach as the incorrigible Falstaff and Sam Waterston as the slumming Prince Hal. Then Romeo and Juliet moves into the Delacorte Theater on Aug. 7, with Martin Sheen and Susan MacArthur in the title roles...
Under Warren, the court has addressed itself principally to three great areas: civil rights, reapportionment under the one-man, one-vote doctrine, and criminal justice. As earlier courts have been dominated by such concerns as property rights, the building of the central government and slavery, Warren's court confronted, in an unusual number of cases, one overriding problem-the rights of the individual. In so doing, the court guaranteed that it would spark controversy. As Oliver Wendell Holmes said of the court in one of his celebrated remarks: "We are very quiet there, but it is the quiet...
...been rather than the one that will be. By any accounting, the Warren court has been the most influential since the Marshall court (1801-35) established the judiciary as the true third branch of the federal system and, with its decisions, laid the legal groundwork for a strong central government in the U.S. Yet, as Fred Rodell, the Yale Law School's Supreme Court specialist, points out, "John Marshall had 34 years to do what he did. Warren did his fantastic work in only 15. The Warren years have been the most productive and exciting the court has ever...
...other-than-industrial categories, the leaders were unchanged. Bank of America is still the nation's biggest bank; Prudential, by a whisker ($511,000 higher assets) over Metropolitan Life, is still the biggest insurance company. Sears, Roebuck is far and away the biggest merchandiser, Penn Central the biggest transportation company, and A.T. & T. by much more than whiskers the biggest utility. (A.T. & T., were its revenues considered as sales, would stand third if it were included among the industrials...
Satan-May-Care. As Rosemary Woodhouse, she and her husband Guy (John Cassavetes) are delighted to find an apartment in the Branford, a penumbral old fortress of an apartment house on Manhattan's Central Park West, modeled on the real-life Dakota at 1 West 72nd Street (where some of the exterior scenes were shot). Rosemary's bookish old father figure, Hutch (Maurice Evans), is not too pleased; the Branford, he notes, has an unsavory history of suicides and diabolical doings, including the murder of a notorious Satanist...