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...elaborate platform for national pride. This year a record 1,465 exhibitors from 31 countries poured $300 million into the displays for 350,000 visitors that filled the exhibition halls along the flight line at Paris' Le Bourget Airport. But what struck many in attendance, including Senior Correspondent Edwin M. Reingold, was the lackluster U.S. showing, especially in contrast with a vibrant Soviet effort. Reingold's report...
...David Edwin Harrell Jr. of the University of Alabama in Birmingham, author of a Roberts biography, notes that in the 1950s, raisings were claimed by several revivalists. To Harrell, the surprise is not that Roberts is making the claim but that he did not do so before...
Bork was the leading contender for the court seat from the first moments after Powell resigned. His name headed separate wish lists drawn up by both Attorney General Edwin Meese, who wanted a conservative in his own mold, and White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker, whose chief concern was to avoid an all-out war over confirmation. Though the combined list the men prepared for the President contained a dozen names, at a Monday-afternoon meeting with Reagan, Baker spoke for himself and Meese when he told the President, "Bork is a cut above all the rest...
...court's current term. Reagan and a few top aides immediately began discussing names. The two leading candidates were Robert Bork, a federal appeals-court judge in the District of Columbia, and Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah. Reagan expressed a desire to get the advice of Attorney General $ Edwin Meese, who happened to be traveling, and further discussion was put off until Monday...
...society without favoring any one faith. A prime exponent is Rehnquist. In a blistering 1985 dissent (before he became Chief Justice), he declared that the Supreme Court's implementation of strict separation for the past 40 years has "no historical foundation." Similar points are made by Reagan Cabinet Members Edwin Meese and William Bennett, by conservative Protestants and, more mildly, by Roman Catholic leaders...