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Kentucky Senator Wendell Ford, lead of the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee, warns that his party's control of the upper house is under serious threat for the first time in a quarter-century. Party Tactician Terry O'Connell, observing that House Democrats are also worried, says: "Everyone I know is scared to death of this thing." Senior Correspondent Laurence I. Barrett explored the reasons for this anxiety. His report...
...explain to him that the Supreme Court Justices had no copying machine. Burger and other bench and bar leaders have pushed with some success for more efficient administration. "There was a day back when a judge said, "I'll start my court at 9 or 10 or 11 o'clock or whenever I want,' " Burger told TIME. "But that attitude won't work today." Still, judges are jealous of their fiefs and do not like to be told to change their ways, even by higher judges...
...work load, comparing their salaries ($54,500 to $57,500) with the six-figure incomes of really successful lawyers, a discouraging number of federal district and circuit judges are going back into private practice. One of the 17 who have left since 1970, former Chief Judge Sidney O. Smith Jr., of the U.S. District Court in Atlanta, returned to his old law firm in 1974 to make enough money (twice as much) so that he could comfortably afford to pay his three children's college tuitions...
DIED. Walter F. O'Malley, 75, former president of the Brooklyn Dodgers who in 1958 moved "da bums" to Los Angeles, thus introducing major league baseball to the West Coast; of a heart attack; in Rochester, Minn. A brusque, chunky man who called himself "Fatso," O'Malley made a fortune buying up Depression-cheap mortgages, and in 1950 acquired a controlling interest in Dodgers stock. When local politicians blocked his plans to build a stadium to replace Brooklyn's decrepit Ebbets Field, O'Malley made good on his warning, "Have franchise, will travel...
...O'Malley further enraged New York fans by persuading Giants Owner Horace Stoneham to move his team from Manhattan to San Francisco. The era of rootless ball clubs began. In the West the Dodgers proved a gold mine and last season drew more than 3 million fans-a milestone in baseball history...