Word: naval
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...debating point. Yet the court's independence hangs in part on the vicissitudes of health among its members. Last week Justice John Marshall Harlan, 72, resigned because of severe illness only six days after the resignation of Justice Hugo L. Black, 85, who died last week in Bethesda Naval Hospital from the effects of a stroke. With Black's death, the court lost its most eminent civil libertarian and a Justice who, more than any other, had influenced its liberal course under Chief Justice Earl Warren...
Since last month Black has been in Bethesda Naval Hospital, where doctors say he has a potentially serious inflammation of the blood vessels. President Nixon is known to be considering seven possible successors for the position. One leading contender is said to be Republican Representative Richard Poff of Virginia, a constitutional law specialist, a friend of Attorney General John Mitchell and a Southerner, apparently in the strict constructionist mold Nixon has frequently endorsed...
...other intellectual topics-something called "the Cult of Ugliness," then the "sexual power of puberty," and finally, of course, Krafft-Ebing. But their first kiss leads only to a more metaphysical discussion. Clearly such cerebral lovers have no future. For sex Urie turns to a much older naval officer, and the grieving Zeb is astonished to find himself aggressively seduced by Loco Poco, just...
...McCracken were there; so were Shultz and his deputy, Caspar Weinburger, and the two Teutons who guard Nixon's gates, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman. Peter Peterson, a presidential aide for international economic affairs, joined the sessions. Volcker and Speechwriter Bill Safire sneaked across Washington to the Anacostia Naval Air Station, where they boarded a helicopter for Camp David. John Connally, who had no way of knowing that the pressure on the dollar would propel him into prominence so soon, had just gone to his Texas ranch for a vacation. He jetted hastily back, and when the first meeting began...
...almost barred from space. Severely injured in a 1961 plane crash (two broken legs, a fractured jaw and a concussion that temporarily wiped out part of his memory), Irwin was twice rejected by NASA before he was finally selected in 1966. Born in Pittsburgh, Pa., Irwin graduated from the Naval Academy in 1951, accepted a commission in the Air Force and quickly developed a taste for flying. Relatively short (5 ft. 8 in.) and introspective, he runs and plays tennis to keep in shape but seems to like few things better than staying at home with his wife, a former...