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Naming the New Planet is a problem. Percival Lowell's wife, who still lives in Beacon Street, Boston, last week suggested Percival. She rejected Lowell as being fixed to too many notable institutions-the Lowell Observatory, the Lowell Institute, the City of Lowell, etc. etc. Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Observatory, suggested Cronos, son of Uranus and father of Zeus. Astrologers recommended variously Isis, Vulcan, Lilith. Choice lies with the Lowell Observatory...
...decisive overtime goal, and was pictured in a widely-reprinted photo smashing his stick across the goalposts in anger after the winning goal. Now, with the BC offense pouring it on, he zoomed up the middle, took a pass from line mate Scott Harlow and slammed the disc past Davidner for the Eagles' final goal of the night...
While the court was granting absolute immunity to Presidents, it refused to do the same for their aides. Fitzgerald had sued two of Nixon's assistants, Bryce Harlow and Alexander Butterfield, over his job problems. Last week the Justices ruled, 8 to 1, that the aides, like Cabinet officers, enjoy only "qualified" immunity. An official, said the court, would be liable to a suit if he could be expected to know he was violating the law. While technically a defeat for the two Nixon aides, the ruling was in a large sense a victory because the court dropped...
Expert reaction to the rulings is considerably cooler. "Both decisions were wrong," says University of Pennsylvania Law Professor Paul Bender. "If anything, we citizens need more protection, not less." The Harlow decision is expected to have broad impact; scholars suggest that the Nixon ruling was noteworthy mostly on a theoretical level. Says Bender: "It has very little practical application. The chances of being able to prove a case against the President were always very small." Nevertheless, some experts welcome the ruling. Says Duke Law Professor William Van Alstyne: "I do not want a President of the United States to have...
...occasionally, as the evening traffic-prostitutes and pimps, bedraggled mental cases and loiterers-begins to saunter up the boulevard, one can sense something of old Hollywood. In front of the Chinese Theater, a knot of tourists may be gathered, staring at the imprint of Jean Harlow's heels in the cement, TO SID: IN SINCERE APPRECIATION: JEAN HARLOW: SEPT...