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...wealthy jurist, Justin (George C. Scott) goes insane when his wife dies and fancies himself Sherlock Holmes, complete with Inverness coat, underslung pipe and austere vanity. His brother-in-law tries to have Justin put into an institution to gain control of his fortune. Faced with "Holmes," the asylum assigns a real psychiatrist named Watson (Joanne Woodward). Even though the sex is wrong, the Baker Street Irregular decides that she is the Dr. Watson ("Elementary, my dear"), and the shrink goes along with the gag. Soon the two are tooling along in Manhattan in pursuit of a villain known inevitably...
...court starts its 180th year next week, however, many observers look to Nixon's second appointee, Justice Harry A. Blackmun. A private, studious, moderate jurist of 61, Blackmun could emerge as the court's pivotal figure. He may have the deciding vote in many important cases. With Republican appointees in the majority, suggests University of Chicago Law Professor Philip Kurland, a leading court watcher, the Burger Court may steer slightly away from the Warren Court's judicial activism-but hardly toward the conservatism that "Vice President Agnew and Attorney General Mitchell are seeking to create...
Newton's mood was a mixture of the chipper and the defiant. During the court session, he and Scale exchanged the clenched-fist salute. Later, at a press conference, Newton accused the trial judge, Harold Mulvey, of being biased in favor of the prosecution-though the jurist has impressed most disinterested observers as fairminded. When pressed to talk about the plight of McLucas, Newton declaimed about conditions in Angola and the Panthers' communications with Hanoi. The real issue, however, was much closer to home. McLucas, 24, is the first of eight Panthers, Scale among them, to be tried...
...nomination to the Supreme Court. Mindful that emotional controversy has severely upset the lives of the President's two previous choices, he observes: "I feel like a load of bricks has landed on me." A reserved man who is protective of his privacy, the 61-year-old jurist nevertheless appreciates the appointment: "It's overwhelming and humbling...
Those opinions, many of Blackmun's associates assert, are not doctrinaire enough to permit Blackmun to be tagged with any tidy judicial labels. One jurist on the appeals court admires Blackmun for always keeping an open mind on issues-"He's not predictable." Blackmun himself says: "I've been called liberal and I've been called conservative. I think labels are deceiving. Actually, I've been brought up in the Frankfurter tradition" (Frankfurter was a relatively conservative Justice). As for being a "strict constructionist" of the Constitution, Blackmun says: "I don't know what...