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AMERICANS, enthralled by the personality of their chief executive and the power of his office, tend to talk about their political history in terms of presidential administrations. Yet last week, when it was learned that Earl Warren, the 14th Chief Justice of the United States, would soon retire from the Supreme Court, it was clear that another branch of government can define a historic period just as sharply-if not more so. For the past 15 years, the extraordinary "Warren court," spanning all but a few months of the terms of three Presidents, has had no less an impact...
Throughout, Earl Warren was both symbol and target. Bumper stickers reading IMPEACH EARL WARREN-or in California, FLUORIDATE EARL WARREN -festooned countless autos, and the Chief Justice was long No. 1 on the far right's hate list. In 1954, Mississippi's Senator James Eastland denounced Warren's court as "the greatest single threat to our Constitution"; last week George Wallace declared that "he's done more to destroy constitutional government in this country than any one man." Even Dwight Eisenhower, who thought of Warren as a mildly progressive Republican when he named him Chief Justice...
...thief, James Earl Ray's specialty was botching his getaway. After heisting $190 from a St. Louis supermarket in 1959, Ray left tracks that the most flat-footed cop could follow: he even parked a car used in the stickup outside his lodgings. That was characteristic of Ray, whose most profitable known caper, grossing only $2,200, was bungled when the escape car crashed. The cruelest of his convictions was for the $11 stickup of a Chicago cab driver...
...Sneyd was found to be packing a loaded pistol in his back pocket, plus another Canadian passport. And when Scotland Yard's crack detective Tommy Butler took over, the alert immigration official's original suspicions were confirmed: fingerprints proved that Sneyd was, in fact, Illinois-born James Earl Ray, 40, alias Eric Starve Gait, the escaped convict accused of assassinating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4 in Memphis...
While the election clearly marked a step to the right within the state party, Tommy Kuchel, 57, had also brought trouble on himself. In his 16 years in the Senate, Kuchel, appointed by Earl Warren in 1952 to fill out Richard Nixon's unexpired term, had entrenched himself as minority whip. With his bland, litigious mind, the Californian found a congenial environment in the clubbish Senate, but he was never very careful about looking after his political fences at home, where he was often more popular with Democrats than with Republicans. Nor did his refusal to support the campaigns...