Word: groupness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...four hours and a million rows of corn south of Chicago. The festival has drawn 1,500 men, wom en and children from as far away as Mexico and Oregon. Clad in overalls, pedal pushers, business suits and military uniforms, they seem to represent every age group, income bracket, occupation-but only one race. "You're welcome to join us, as long as you're white," John R. Harrell, founder of the league, said over the phone a few days earlier. "We work with all races, but we don't believe in mixing them. We feel that...
...students take notes and volunteer hints of their own. ("I use distilled water for drinking; it stores longer"; "We plan to evacuate as a group in our mobile homes, and pull them into a circle for a wagon-train effect.") Jim Miller, 33, an auto service department manager from Boles, Ky., came for the food preservation and weapons courses. He now resolves to do more home canning, and to teach his ten-year-old son how to handle a gun. "He likes the idea, but his mother doesn't," says Miller. Charles Harrison, 31, a scholarly-looking accountant, says...
Instructors in fatigues and mufti are still lecturing on the fine points of treason, gun handling and dandelion cook ery. Off to the side, a group of apple-cheeked, grade-school-age girls in ging ham dresses, children of members of the audience, are sitting on swings, singing chorus after chorus of Jesus Loves...
...Burger had three more Nixon appointees as colleagues on the court: Harry A Blackmun, Lewis F. Powell Jr and William H. Rehnquist. Liberals warned of "an emerging Nixon majority"; indeed, in the early to mid-'70s, the Burger Court, with the Nixon appointees often voting as a group, began chipping away at Warren Court precedents such as Miranda and the rule excluding illegally obtained evidence. But then the bloc of Nixon appointees began to break up. In 1972-73 the quartet voted together three out of four times. By 1977-78 they were all of the same mind...
Stewart, 64, a liberal Republican, comes as close as any in the group to being an artful politician, but has not emerged as a leader. Stevens, 59, the newest Justice, is a probing questioner and an unpredictable vote; he is frequently called the court's ''wild card.'' He believes his role to be purely intellectual, not political...