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...memoir of the nearly 37 years he had spent on the bench. Early reports are that the forthcoming book, which is due from Random House this fall, shows that Douglas was bold in setting down his often acid-etched opinions of the court and his colleagues. A former law clerk of Douglas' who has seen the early drafts describes some of the Justice's comments about his brethren as "incredibly nasty. They read like something that Alice Roosevelt Longworth would have written...
...cavernous "room," as the main trading hall of Lloyd's of London is called, a clerk still enters (with a quill pen) the names of newly sunk vessels in an upright ledger that, in past years, has held the names of the Titanic and the Lusitania. Above hangs the Lutine bell, salvaged from a Lloyd's-insured British frigate, which tolls to announce a maritime loss or other disaster. That bell should perhaps now be pealing for the venerable insurance institution itself...
After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the shift to Carter turned into a rout. Said Postal Clerk Ray Blalock, 39, of Charlotte, N.C.: "If the election were today, most likely I'd vote for Carter, because I feel we need some continuity in foreign affairs in this crisis right now." Said David Hopkins, 36, a forklift operator in Auburn, N.Y.: "Carter seems to be getting a little more tough with the Soviets, more forceful and dynamic. I don't turn off the TV now when Carter is talking...
Many Kennedy backers began switching to Carter during the Iranian crisis. Said Detroit Air Traffic Clerk Betsy McCamman, 29: "It's not what Carter did, it's what he didn't do. He didn't overreact." Then Kennedy dismayed still other backers by attacking deposed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. To James Schroeder, 33, a hotel bellman in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., this was "dirty pool." Said he: "If anything, Kennedy should have attacked the militants. He should have supported the President." Complained Richard Maynard, 30, a high school social studies teacher in Philadelphia: "There was a move...
Originally, the Austrians had planned to race a four-man downhill team of Peter Wirnsberger, Werner Grissmann, Haiti Weirather and Josef Walcher, the 1978 downhill world champion. The team's alternate, Leonhard Stock, a long-nosed and wiry clerk from Austria's lovely Ziller Valley, had severely injured his shoulder in December while training for the World Cup, and went to Lake Placid as a substitute. But in practice runs at Whiteface, Stock clocked the best time for all racers on the first day, then repeated the feat the second day. Team officials met and settled upon...