Word: earle
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...Government investigators and about the number of subpoenas on journalists by grand juries and congressional committees. He will watch closely how the Supreme Court rules on three pending subpoena cases in which the Justice Department is seeking to force reporters to reveal confidential sources for stories. Times Reporter Earl Caldwell and Newsman Paul Pappas of WTEV in New Bedford, Mass., refused to discuss Black Panther activities for grand juries, and Reporter Paul Branzburg of the Louisville Courier-Journal balked at identifying, for yet another grand jury, marijuana and hashish peddlers he had interviewed for a story on drugs...
When first subpoenaed last August, Popkin attempted to quash the order by means of a similar argument. He contended that in keeping with the "Caldwell principle," his academic contacts with Ellsberg, an M.I.T. research associate, should be kept private. Earl Caldwell is a New York Times reporter whom a federal court recently excused from grand jury testimony, allowing him to protect confidential sources...
...legend Texans are a grandiose breed with more than the natural share of megalomaniacs. But University of Texas Biochemist Earl B. Dawson thinks that he detects an uncommon pocket of psychological adjustment around El Paso. The reason, says Dawson, lies in the deep wells from which the city draws its water supply...
...Justice Hugo L. Black, 85, who died last week in Bethesda Naval Hospital from the effects of a stroke. With Black's death, the court lost its most eminent civil libertarian and a Justice who, more than any other, had influenced its liberal course under Chief Justice Earl Warren...
Intellectual Pillars. The general shape of the emerging Nixon court seems clear. It will turn more sharply away from the activist, innovative role as practiced under Chief Justice Earl Warren and toward a limited and cautious translation of the Constitution. That trend already had been evident since the departure of Warren and the arrival of two Nixon appointees, Chief Justice Warren Burger and Justice Harry Blackmun. There is even the possibility that some of the Warren Court decisions that broadened the protection of minority groups in civil rights cases and of defendants facing criminal prosecution could be modified or reversed...