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Justice is sometimes served in mysterious ways. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun told a commencement day audience at Hamline University last week that when he took his place on that exalted bench, he was amazed to find that each Justice had a box of cough drops in a drawer in front of him. "I don't know why," said Blackmun, "because we don't say much." In Blackmun's box was a single cough drop. "It tasted like it had been there since 1902. Then I didn't know what to do with the empty...
...prevailing view among environmentalists is that if the world does not end with a bang, it will expire with a strangled cough. Ecologist Kenneth Watt says that with auto exhausts increasing nitrogen in the air, "it's only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable." A positively dissenting view comes from Rene Dubos, brilliant microbiologist and experimental pathologist, author of 15 books and still-working professor emeritus at Manhattan's Rockefeller University. Last week he explained his outlook to TIME Correspondent Alan Anderson...
...egregious tax inequities that exist among the Six. But so far, the main effect of his campaign has been to stir new doubts about Common Market membership in Britain, where cremation is common. Britons already consider themselves too heavily taxed on their income to be expected to cough up for what they urn as well...
...establish Bangla Desh, an independent Bengal state. But the strain of the undertaking is overtaxing West Pakistan's resources and nerves. "This regime has East Pakistan stuck in its throat," says one American diplomat in the federal capital of Islamabad. "The army must either swallow it or cough...
...side of the bed. Each night as she prepares the family dinner, Mrs. Mines hears the police helicopter whirring overhead; helicopters patrol from time to time near each juror's home. When the telephone rings and the party hangs up just as Mr. Mines says hello, she coughs her nervous cough again...