Word: haved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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As the outspoken, well-tailored $82,500-per-year superintendent of the nation's third largest school system, Chicago's Joseph Harmon was a favorite in the Gold Coast parlors of the city's business elite. In four years on the job his scrappy resistance to busing...
But just why, and how much, Chicago's schools had gone into the hole, by week's end nobody could tell. Current deficit estimates still began at Joe Hannon's original $43 million. But tallies of total indebtedness to bondholders and others ran as high as $700...
Of the twelve Justices portrayed in the book, Burger receives the harshest verdict. He is limned as a vain and petty man who consistently tries to bend or ignore the court's rules in order to get his way. His frequent vote switching exasperates his colleagues: after one flipflop...
Other oldtimers on the court hung on long after they should have retired. Justice Hugo Black, who died in 1971, tried to cover up a stroke suffered while playing tennis; his colleagues began to wonder if he was becoming senile. In one pathetic scene, Justice John Marshall Harlan, once one...
The book is sprinkled with homey detail. "What's shakin', chiefy baby?" is Marshall's jocular greeting to a startled Burger. At the height of the Agnew scandal in 1973, Baseball Buff Stewart had his clerks slip him play-by-play bulletins on the National League playoffs...