Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Smiling Exit. In response to a diatribe against his Demonstration Cities bill from Texas Reporter Sarah McClendon-who, with her hair flying everywhere to Halloween, looked like Comedienne Phyllis Diller in a hurricane -Johnson good-humoredly assured her that while he did not concur with her "legal analysis" of the bill, he thanked her for the opportunity to defend "one of the most important pieces of legislation that we can act upon this session." Asked for his comment on some G.O.P. criticism that his Asian trip was timed to coincide with the elections-the kind of question that has sometimes...
Straining Dignity. While the Warren court mulls over such potential blockbusters, many a free-swinging legal pundit is gossiping that two of the great activists may soon quit-Justice Hugo Black, because he is now past 80, and Justice William O. Douglas, because he has supposedly strained court dignity by taking a fourth wife of 23. Knowledgeable court watchers will have to see it to believe it. Even so, a change in the court's composition may be coming. Along with the aging Black and Douglas, Chief Justice Warren is 76; Justices Clark and Harlan...
...opinion that foreshadowed the recent Supreme Court decision in the Sheppard case, is mainly worried that pretrial controls will leave defense lawyers "muzzled" and "prosecutions corrupted against the public interest." The real pressure, says Edwards, should be on trial judges to "make full use of the tools which legal tradition has given them to guarantee a fair trial...
...more meaningful for Jews. "The Jew," says Rabbi Jack J. Cohen of Israel, "was not made for the law but the law for the Jew." Israel's Deputy Chief Justice Moshe Silberg believes that the time has come for a new Halakah code that would be "a secular legal creation based on principles of Jewish law with a clear dissociation from all the archaic layers that were heaped on Jewish law. The task will be to select the wheat from the chaff, to cut away the dried branches from the tree, which is still full of life...
...could say just when the case -which could bring a $50,000 fine for each of the manufacturing companies and a similar fine plus a year in prison for the indicted executives-would come to a legal verdict...