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...Caney, Cat Creek, Possum Creek, Dog Creek and Skunk Branch all are up after a rain, we got more seacoast than Australia." Despite its tendency to burst its banks, the Arkansas was nonetheless a busy waterway. Keelboats explored it in the early 1800s. By the 1820s side-wheelers pushed past the Fort Smith sandbars. Before going to Texas, Sam Houston steamed up a tributary in Oklahoma to wed his Cherokee beauty. Henry Shreve, founder of Shreveport, in 1833 eliminated 1,500 navigational snags, but boatmen still grumbled that the river's "bottom is too near...
...Spain's ponderous judiciary moved to confront her with all the caution of a broken-horned bull facing a top-ranking torero. She was, after all, the Duchess of Medina Sidonia, three times a grandee of Spain, and she had proved herself a troublesome opponent in the past. In 1967, she was arrested for her role in organizing a farmers' protest march to demand additional U.S. compensation for damages suffered when three U.S. nuclear bombs accidentally fell near Palomares. This time, the problem centered on an explosive novel that she had written called The Strike. After a year...
...ninth, only one strikeout stood between him and Sandy Koufax's World Series record. He got that, and more. Detroit Outfielder Al Kaline nailed futilely at a fastball. First Baseman Norm Cash missed a slider by a mile. Then, with a final flourish, Gibson slipped another slider past Outfielder Willie Horton and stalked off the field with a five-hit 4-0 victory and a new Series mark of 17 strikeouts...
Birthday of an Amendment. Despite the uncertainty of the future, Justices Warren, Fortas and William Brennan took time last week to celebrate the past. The occasion was the 100th anniversary of the 14th Amendment, and at a centennial commemoration sponsored by N.Y.U. Law School, all three defended the use of the amendment's "due process clause" to strike down state laws that discriminate against Negroes or deny federally guaranteed rights. Brennan called the 14th "the prime tool by which we as citizens are striving to shape a society which truly champions the dignity and worth of the individual." Perhaps...
Sensitive to Criticism. Some court scholars argue that the majority of Justices have now become sensitive to widespread criticism, and during the coming year are likely to pay a little more attention to public opinion. Actually, the court has done a bit of retrenching in the past two years, and may well leave more and more of the big issues to Congress. Still, the libertarian doctrines developed by the Warren court during the past 15 years are firmly rooted. They are not likely to be abandoned by the men who now sit in the chamber...