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Marking the end of a 16-year era of change, controversy and revolution in interpretation of the nation's laws, this special takes a look at Earl Warren the man, the record of the Warren Court, its role in society and the other Justices of the Supreme Court...
Reconciliation will probably be the nation's greatest task for decades. The tragic fact of 1969 is that many voters apparently do not recognize the challenge and that so few leaders are able to point it out to them. What is the prognosis? "Only a crazy man would feel very hopeful," says Sociologist David Riesman. "But only a self-indulgent man would give...
...hardly a rarity in Latin America, but Brazil's military-backed government seems more brazen about it than most. Instead of arresting, warning or otherwise punishing specific editors for printing articles that President Arthur da Costa e Silva finds offensive, the government is now flatly telling the nation's press how to handle stories in advance. Preparing for Nelson Rockefeller's scheduled visit to Brazil this week, the government ordered all editors to "collaborate in order to create a favorable climate for the stay among us of this representative of the Government of the United States...
...narrative moves swiftly. Maintaining an even, detached perspective, Halberstam generates a momentum that carries the reader headlong into the stonewall shock of the book's last sentence. "Then he descended to acknowledge his victory, to talk about the violence and divisiveness, and to let a nation discover in his death what it had never understood or believed about him during his life...
...dirty stories, and gambling angers him. His actual faith is the familiar mixture of pragmatic boosterism and hard-shell propriety. "Civilization may not be rotting," he concedes. "My personal opinion is that if Roosevelt and his left-wing advisers do not undermine the freedom and security of this nation we should see advances in many fields of endeavor which will literally stagger the imagination...