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What the Times seemed to regard as a quaint exemplar of ranch-house politics takes on a more unsavory look in the light of at least one of the chores Fortas was apparently called upon to perform while he was a Justice. Early in 1967, Ralph Lazarus, president of the Federated Department Stores, predicted that expenditures on the war in Vietnam for the coming year would be some $5 billion over the President's public estimates. The next day Lazarus received a call from Justice Fortas, which the Times relates "was to transmit Lyndon Johnson's ire." Lazarus quickly recanted...
...even the limited role described by Fortas troubled many, including liberal friends. He admitted, for instance, that 21 months after donning the judicial robes, he had called a businessman friend, Ralph Lazarus, chairman of the board of Federated Department Stores, to chide him for questioning Administration estimates of war spending. Fortas refused to say whether Johnson had instigated the call, thereby leaving the impression that...
Also as expected, Yale dominated the jumps and the sprints. Schoonover and Pete Lazarus (over 15 feet for the first time) won the vault and Jim Coleman surprised Randy Rall and Al Evans in the high jump. But the Elis swept the triple jump behind football star Cal Hill and Kwaku Ohene-Frempong and took one-two in the long jump. The Blue swept both dashes and sandwiched Harvard Captain Jeff Huvelle...
Steve Schoonover and Pete Lazarus swept first and second places in the pole vault. Both jumped 14'6", and Schoonover was awarded the event on the basis of fewer misses...
...been flat on his back in hospitals in Munich and Paris, suffering first from flu, which developed into double pneumonia, and more recently from painful and incapacitating nerve inflammations in both legs. Though Von Karajan's recuperative powers are supposed to be second only to those of Lazarus, even his doctors are wondering whether he will be ready when rehearsals begin next week...