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...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...
Later, he said, "Richard Nixon was elected in 1968 because people like you sat on their hands... And so we have Warren Burger in place of Earl Warren. And so we almost had George Harold Carswell. We have the Southern strategy and benign neglect...we have the Commander-in-Chief going out of his way to support both William Calley at My Lai and Nelson Rockefeller at Attica...
...have the cemetery so close, "where I can look up family dates." Yet his memory of Talcottville as "a clean and trim settlement" soon proves out of date. Some of its houses are "tumbledown" and "squalid," its citizens "ambitionless." Highways are closer and larger. Birch Society posters recommend impeaching Earl Warren. Teen-age motorcyclists ride across the lawn and drink on Wilson's porch, forcing him to scare them away "with a roar and the ancient gun that a Civil War collector in Boonville had offered to buy as a relic...