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...hours a day for the next 21 months, Manchester gathered material, accumulating 45 volumes of tapes, notes and documents. From Cape Cod to Dallas, he conducted 1,000 interviews with 500 people. He spent a day in Gettysburg with Dwight Eisenhower, 31 hours over lunch with Chief Justice Earl Warren. In Dallas, he retraced on foot the route of Kennedy's motorcade. A meticulous reporter, he scoured hungrily for the small details that help illuminate the larger ones: how a flock of pigeons took wing from the roof of the Texas School Book Depository when Lee Harvey Oswald fired...
...these days (399 this year) that two months ago, when Soviet Spy George Blake sawed his way out of Wormwood Scrubbs in London, the issue of prison security welled up into a national scandal that acutely embarrassed the Labor government. Home Secretary Roy Jenkins reacted by naming the eminent Earl Mountbatten to head a committee of inquiry. In turn, the onetime First Lord of the Admiralty pledged his word that "We will be out working all the time, not sitting on our backsides...
...Bond's First Amendment guar antee of freedom of speech by refusing to grant him his seat. The right to make such statements as Bond's "I admire the courage of anyone who burns his draft card" would not be denied a private citizen, wrote Chief Justice Earl Warren in the court's decision. All the more should they not be denied a legislator, who has, in fact, a duty to speak out on controversial questions so that his constituents can know where he stands...
...will," said Earl Warren Jr., 36. As a matter of fact, young Earl had nothing but praise for the sort of decisions that have been made by his father's U.S. Supreme Court in recent years. "They are recognizing the laws as they originally were intended to be," he explained. Now Junior will be able to make a few decisions of his own. California's outgoing Governor Pat Brown, an old family friend, has named Earl, a lawyer and registered Democrat, as a Sacramento municipal-court judge...
...joined the sit-in. Vice Chancellor William Boyd offered to let conscientious objectors set up a table beside the recruiters, and Dean of Students Arleigh Williams said that no one would be arrested if all would move on. Both offers were ignored. Several hours later, Executive Vice Chancellor Earl F. Cheit, filling in for Heyns, who was attending meetings at Harvard and Princeton, summoned about 100 campus and local police. Armed with warrants, they arrested six nonstudents, including Savio...