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...Henri Gault and Christian Millau have much in common. Both are 44-year-old Sunday cooks and year-round gourmets-curiously slight of paunch considering their present trade-who once worked as reporters on the now defunct Paris Presse. The solidest bond between the two is the joy they share in debunking the culinary canons of their fellow Frenchmen. They condone serving red wine with fish, accept Israelite gras as only "slightly inferior" to the product of Strasbourg and advise housewives to shorten the cooking hours of those long, loving, simmering stews. They have even dared to question butter...
YOUNG Gerald Gault may have thought it was just a joke. He telephoned a housewife who lived near by in Globe, Ariz., and made what the Supreme Court subsequently called "remarks or questions of the irritatingly offensive, adolescent sex variety." The boy had no lawyer, the housewife never publicly testified, no hearing transcript was kept and no appeal was possible. It took a writ of habeas corpus to get a review of the case. Gault could have received a maximum jail term of two months if he had been an adult; since he was 15, he was committed...
...landmark ruling extended to a juvenile offender many rights that an adult can take for granted: the right to prompt notice of the charges against him, the right to consult a lawyer, to avoid self-incrimination and to cross-examine hostile witnesses. But though it was a breakthrough, the Gault ruling hardly signaled full legal status for children. "Children are the last 'niggers' of our society," says Larry Brown, director of the Boston Task Force on Children Out of School. But Gault at least got something started. As Brown observes: "We're on the verge...
...Gault, a decision he wrote last year is perhaps the high point of his judicial career so far. In theory the juvenile system allowed the judge paternal discretion in dealing with young offenders; in practice, they were often convicted on flimsy evidence. But juvenile courts, said Fortas, should be bound by the same rules as adult courts: "Neither the 14th Amendment nor the Bill of Rights is for adults alone. Under our Constitution, the condition of being a boy does not justify a kangaroo court." A dissent last month from the 5-to-4 decision that labeled public drunkenness...
With such a background, Fortas has inevitably become a member of the court's so-called activist majority. He has already staked out juvenile law as an area of special expertise and authored the court's important Gault decision, which extended constitutional rights to young offenders. His compelling advocacy seems certain to increase his judicial reputation. Indeed, it would seem that his move to the court has only one serious drawback. The workload is even heavier than it was in private practice. As a result, though he is an avid and expert amateur violinist, he has reluctantly...