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...EARL BLUE...
...succession of sensational trials lately has made the work of the cortroom artists more evident than ever. For magazines, newspapers and television, they have limned the likenesses of Jack Ruby, Clay Shaw, Sirhan Sirhan and James Earl Ray. In recent weeks, they have been busy covering the Chicago Seven trial, the Black Panther conspiracy hearing in New York and the Lieut. William Calley hearings in Georgia...
...integration in 1956 into a private club, once bought land that carried a racially restrictive deed, and served as a director of a housing corporation for a Florida State University fraternity that excluded blacks. All those acts only conformed to the unfortunate facts of life in the Old South. Earl Warren, after all, once helped put thousands of Japanese-Americans into detention camps...
Aristocratic Disdain. The Rt. Hon. Bertrand Arthur William Russell, third Earl Russell, was born into a tradition of aristocratic disdain for what the neighbors might say, if not with an active desire to epater le bourgeois. His grandfather, the first earl, was Prime Minister of England. His parents were ardent freethinkers and campaigners for women's rights. Bertie, considered frail, was educated at home, and there was much coming and going of tutors...
...Hence the Justice Department has customarily negotiated the scope of subpoenas for the news media. Mitchell insisted that there had been no change of policy under his direction but conceded that "unfortunately" some subpoenas had been issued without prior negotiation. Among the most recent: one ordering New York Timesman Earl Caldwell to produce notes and tape-recorded interviews on the Black Panther Party acquired since January last year...