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...Never before had a Chief Justice-designate been grilled by a Senate committee. Never before had there been so dramatic an opportunity to voice criticism of the Warren court. For Abe Fortas, the confrontation must have been an occasion of particular pain. After four days of hearings before James Eastland's Senate Judiciary Committee, it was plain that the most serious impediment to his confirmation as 15th Chief Justice of the United States may prove to be his friendship with Lyndon Johnson...
...route to Houston, one of the most adamant congressional opponents of gun controls came under the gun himself. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman James Eastland of Mississippi was confronted by an armed hijacker on his way to the men's room. "I'm a dying man," Eastland was told. "I don't mind killing you. You better get back to your seat." Reported Eastland later: "I went right back and sat down." The gunman ordered Pilot Forrest Dines to fly to Cuba, but later tossed his .45 automatic on the cabin floor and surrendered. In an orotund senatorial...
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...
...single hot-dog stand, the boys wheeled and dealt themselves in and out of restaurants, real estate and a bank before taking over the Lamie Tavern and a hotel-keeping career. Since then, their projects, all overseen by Ma Dunfey, have ranged from acquisition of the 800-room Eastland Hotel in Portland, Me., New England's third biggest hotel, to a $3,850,000 franchised Howard Johnson Motor Lodge now abuilding directly over the Massachusetts Turnpike...
...dream. The poor people are marching to challenge the Pharaoh." Led by Williams and the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, 42, successor to Martin Luther King, the poverty pilgrims wound through back-country roads in buses, battered cars and behind farm wagons drawn by mules named Stennis and Eastland, George Wallace and Jim Clark (for the former Selma, Ala., sheriff who bloodied many a black head during earlier civil rights marches...