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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...noted that both are Republicans; the Administration has been under heavy fire lately for partisanship in its appointments of federal judges and prosecutors. Bell suggested that Carter's decision might have turned on a simple affinity of temperament. "McGarr is a trial lawyer and has a more dominant personality," said the Attorney General. "Webster is given to being a quiet person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Again, the FBI Gets Its Man | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

...after his nomination, and the only possible problem might be his membership in St. Louis' Veiled Prophet Society and the Noonday Club, two exclusive groups that have no black members. Bell noted that he had studied Webster's court decisions and found him to be a "moderate person" who "reasons well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Again, the FBI Gets Its Man | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

Rockefeller was the person who first noted the great ironies in the sunlit room, how history has been shaped by these people, how often their fates have been determined by the thinnest chance and circumstance. He looked across the room and spoke of the strange tides that had swept them all along, and now had brought them together again. Indeed, the sequence of power, the flow of events, fascinated everyone. Mrs. Johnson was there because of John Kennedy's assassination, Nixon because Lyndon Johnson had been President, Ford because of Nixon, Rockefeller because of Ford. And maybe Carter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: An Illustrious Kaffeeklatsch | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

...would deny a blind person with a Seeing-Eye dog equal access to public facilities? A whole slew of restaurants, that's who, even though every state has modified health regulations to guarantee admittance for canine guides. After suffering through exclusion incidents, thousands of blind people now carry a summary of state laws to convince hostile restaurant and club owners of their rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Briefs | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

...Sometimes a naïve person will wish, 'I would like to be dead and see how everyone mourns me.' Such a writer is continually staging such a scene: He dies (or rather he does not live) and continually mourns himself. From this springs a terrible fear of death ... he has a terrible fear of dying because he has not yet lived. .. In reply to this, one might say that this is a matter of fate and is not given into anyone's hand. But then why this sense of repining, this repining that never ceases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Genius of the Blackest Impulses | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

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