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Over the years, Burger's tendency to flip-flop has given rise to conspiracy theories about his motives, notes TIME Correspondent Douglas Brew. When 'the Chief votes with the majority, he has the right to decide who should write the opinion of the court and provide the reasoning behind the decision. If he is in the minority, the most senior member of the majority assigns the task. According to former Supreme Court law clerks, Burger has, at times, held back or switched his vote to keep control of the opinion assignment, a practice the clerks call "phony voting...
...will give the domestic public and foreigners the sense that we really are going to come to grips with inflation." Grove concedes that a dramatic and determined" credit squeeze would depress business activity and push up the unemployment rate. He also thinks the stock market had good reason to flop: "Some of the doubting Thomases who believed we would have at most a mild recession now realize we are going to have a real recession that could significantly reduce profits." Nonetheless, Grove, like Sprinkel, believes that the recession will be less severe than it would have been had inflation been...
...Hold It, It's Too Hot. The funny names suggest that we are in P.G. Wodehouse country. So does the buckety-buckety pace of the book, as Schultz careers from misfortune to disaster in his efforts to produce what is evidently going to be his fourth straight flop...
Everyone in the theater lives within the le thal limits of a terrific hit or a castratory flop. To get to the top is a demanding task; to stay at the top is a grueling or deal. Nobody knows more about that than Neil Simon, or deals with it with such consistent comic verve...
...inconclusive outcome of the war may have hurt the prestige of Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, who is chief of staff of the P.L. A. More than anyone else in the Politburo, Teng has been personally identified with the invasion. If it should be perceived as a flop in the future, opponents could conceivably use it against him, much as the Cuban missile crisis was used against Khrushchev. Some diplomats noted that last week another, lesser known Vice Premier, Li Hsien-nien, had assumed an expanded role as Peking's spokesman...