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Last week, however, Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn told Mays to say goodbye to baseball. Kuhn's edict came after Mays decided to sign a ten-year contract worth more than $1 million with Bally Manufacturing Corp. to make public appearances on behalf of the firm's new Atlantic City casino. Such a close tie with a gambling organization, Kuhn ruled, "is not in the best interests of baseball," and he told Mays that if he works for Bally, he must give up his job with the Mets...
...going to put it away by edict, law or resolution," Timilty asserted, adding that the only way to breach racial gaps was to increase black-white dialogue in the city...
...Ralph Hone reveals in his biography of Sayers, she was eccentric, private and opinionated ("Everything she said was a statement, almost an edict," a friend testified). Her minister father began to teach her Latin when Dorothy was barely seven. Her talent for languages lingered: in 1915 she took first-class honors at Somerville College, Oxford, in modern and medieval French. There followed a period in which, as Hone prudishly puts it, she "realized the promises of physical sensuality." After two failed love affairs and an illegitimate son (whom she placed with a country cousin), Sayers married Atherton Fleming, a badly...
...third branch of Government, Warren Burger's Supreme Court has avoided the hobgoblin of little minds. It has developed an almost elegant lack of judicial philosophy. This year's graven edict of the majority may turn up next year as a dissent. Observes Georgetown Law Center Professor Dennis Hutchinson: "The bar and the public are left without the ability to predict what the court will do even in similar circumstances. You don't know where you stand with this court...
...Administration cannot even depend on support from the courts. Federal judges in Beaumont, Texas, New Orleans, Albuquerque and Fargo, N. Dak., have countermanded the edict already in force for federal buildings. In the words of the New Orleans judges, the measure is "arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable...