Word: ordered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Among the most persistent detractors was Richard Nixon. In his 1968 law-and-order campaign for the presidency, he accused the Supreme Court of ''weakening the peace forces in society and strengthening the criminal forces.'' If elected, he promised, he would fill Supreme Court vacancies with ''strict constructionists,'' a description generally taken to mean conservatives...
Earl Warren retired, and in May 1969 Nixon chose Warren Earl Burger to replace him as Chief Justice. Burger, then 61, seemed made to order for Nixon's views...
...until he spills all his secrets to our side. The avalanche is but one of the many none too subtle attempts by Soviet intelligence to silence him before he gets too chatty. One keeps wondering why he was not simply bundled on a U.S.-bound plane in Italy in order to avoid all this huggermugger. There is talk about his being so important that rolling him all the way across the Continent will draw many So viet agents out of deep cover, thus crimping the enemy's espionage style. But all we ever see are dozens of anonymous goons...
...order to pull off a minor miracle on November 6--the latest poll gave White a 14 per cent victory margin--Timilty needs endorsements from the King and Finnegan camps. And he just hasn't gotten them. King, who supported Timilty in 1975, agreed with the Black Political Task Force's assessment of this year's race: vote against White, but don't endorse Timilty. The city's other leading liberal--State Rep. Barney Frank '62--gave his support to Timilty. But with the major papers lined up against him, it all seems too little and too late. The Finnegan...
Among the candidates themselves, only an intricate arrangement for billings and credits prevents squabbles. For example: each candidate's literature also lists the entire slate. But not in alphabetical order, presumably because that would aid Francis Duehay and hurt David Wylie. So candidates begin the list with the name closest after theirs in the alphabet and work through it to the beginning...