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...reputation as a combative and principled jurist has endured. And so have reservations about his penchant for exerting policy influence in questionable ways. The latest fuss concerns his actions in the historic 1954 school-integration case Brown v. Board of Education. Philip Elman, 69, a former Frankfurter law clerk who served as a Justice Department civil rights lawyer, says that while Brown was in progress Frankfurter regularly shared with him the confidential views of fellow Justices, which Elman later used when preparing Government briefs in the case...
...less bleak 750 miles to the northeast in Deadhorse, a town of prefabricated modules that hunkers next to the oil fields at Prudhoe Bay, north of the Arctic Circle. The Prudhoe Bay Trading Post recently held a sale. DON'T SNOOZE, YOU'LL LOSE, the sign trumpeted. Clerk Lisa Greenwood had trouble staying awake. "At 8:30, there wasn't a soul in here," she says. "Business has gone down 50% in the past year." The house she and her husband Perry bought outside Anchorage two years ago for $120,000 is now appraised at $90,000. The mortgage payments...
...course, new technology is always disconcerting, at least at first. At Chicago Kenworth, a heavy-truck dealer in suburban Markham, Ill., Accounting Clerk Luanna Domke shudders when she describes the arrival of the company's new Inter-Tel GX smart telephones earlier this month. Says Domke: "The first day, everyone was in a panic. People were saying, 'Oh, my God! What do I do with...
...results are sometimes extraordinary. Even if some of their visual jokes are stolen--like the Mad Biker blowing up bunnies with a hand grenade--they remain surprising and funny. The sequence in which H.I. is chased through a suburb by the police, a heaving armed albino convenience store clerk, and a pack of dogs deserves a special Oscar for Gratuitous Tension in a Feature Film...
...importance of breast-feeding as a retardant to criminal behavior. Having kidnaped Nathan Jr. from the original kidnapers, Evelle wanders into a store and, just prior to robbing the place, buys balloons for the child. "These blow up into funny shapes?" he asks. "Not unless round is funny," the clerk replies...