Word: harlan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...both decisions the vote was 7 to 1, Chief Justice Earl Warren dissenting. For the majority, Justice John M. Harlan noted that most states and the Federal Government outlaw gambling. Thus anyone complying with the law would automatically provide evidence-freely made available to state authorities-that he was planning something illegal. Said one St. Louis bookie, asked if he had bought a stamp: "No. It's worth it to keep the feds off your back. But the minute you buy one, the state knows what's going...
...time or another, the Post Office Department has seen fit to immortalize five Chief Justices of the Supreme Court: John Jay, John Marshall, Harlan F. Stone, William Howard Taft and Charles Evans Hughes. Now the P.O. has decided to honor some Associate Justices who were every bit as great as their chiefs. First on the list: Oliver Wendell Holmes, who died in 1935 at the age of 93. Come March, his wise and bearded visage will look out from a new 15? stamp...
Justice Abe Fortas observed that "someone might think it was a form of dissent to throw a rock through a window of the White House." Justice John Harlan pointed out that, rather than being superfluous, the ban on burning or destroying the cards might well be seen as a legitimate way for Congress to ensure that registrants carry their cards at all times. Most definite of all was Justice Hugo Black, who has long been known as an uncompromising foe of restrictions on free speech. Card burning did not seem to him to be covered by the First Amendment guarantee...
...Fragile Flirtation. As NATO heads towards its 20th anniversary, its biggest danger, ironically, comes from the current European détente. The new state of East-West relations, says U.S. NATO Ambassador Harlan Cleveland, is still a "fragile flirtation, with the West pitching most of the woo." But NATO nations are acting as if the cold war were over and could never be renewed. They are losing, says Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, NATO's Secretary-General from 1957-1961, "the cement of fear that bound them together." They tend to squabble over everything from their respective troop...
...other way around, with labor shortages causing "forced mechanization." In the case of tomatoes, field workers, turning from arduous stoop work to higher-paying jobs in town, were becoming scarce even before the first mechanical tomato harvester appeared on the market in 1960. At Woodland, Calif., Farmer Bernell Harlan, 60, is part owner of a pair of $22,000 tomato harvesters, goes so far as to credit the machine with "saving the tomato industry for California...