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...Congressional ethics, limelighted by the House's exclusion of Adam Clayton Powell and the Senate's censure of Thomas Dodd, remained conspicuously unfinished business. Although both chambers now have special committees assigned to writing ethics codes, neither group brought one to the floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE 90th's MIXED BAG | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

...Clayton Corzatte plays Aubrey with a bravura that grates audience sensibilities in the beginning but still manages to modulate into something like sympathy by the end. But the play belongs to Mrs. Fisher-the best role Helen Hayes has found since she was Queen Victoria 29 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Showing Off Miss H. | 12/15/1967 | See Source »

...Also outraged by the movie was Bonnie's sister, Billie Jean Parker, who lives in Dallas and had spent nine months in jail for sheltering Bonnie. She engaged Attorneys Jim Martin and Clayton Fowler (previous client: Jack Ruby) to sue Warner Bros, for $1,025,000. The film, it is alleged, "blackened" the memory of Bonnie and injured the reputation of Billie Jean, who offers some support of the claim: "One time Bonnie's leg was burned real bad in a car wreck. It took $9-a-day worth of Unguentine to put on her leg. Clyde...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: The Shock of Freedom in Films | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

...facts were more outrageous than those surrounding last year's demonstrations in Grenada, Miss. There Clayton himself had previously ordered a speedup in the local schools' desegregation, but when Negro children attempted to enter the schools, they were savagely beaten. Judge Clayton bluntly ordered the police to protect the children henceforth and sentenced Strong-arm Constable Grady Carroll to four months for contempt of court. Said one of the lawyers in the courtroom: "You should have seen Carroll's face. The man was just astounded-a Mississippi judge doing this to a Mississippi law officer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judges: Change Down South | 11/24/1967 | See Source »

...realist," Clayton explains, "I've recognized my responsibility to adapt to changing times." He is still fundamentally conservative. "We knew he would protect clearly defined Constitutional rights," says an N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund lawyer, "but we also knew he wouldn't make law." Clayton agrees, adding that "case law must come, if it comes at all, at the appeals level." He is now moving to that level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judges: Change Down South | 11/24/1967 | See Source »

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