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Chief Justice Warren Burger began his speech with an analogy to "the early pioneer who, looking out the window of his log cabin, saw a pack of wolves." The pioneer, said Burger, could cry "Wolf!" without apology, and so too, argued the Chief, can the overburdened U.S. Supreme Court. During the past 30 years, the number of cases on the high court's annual docket has nearly quadrupled, from 1,463 to 5,311, by Burger's count, and the total of signed court opinions has jumped from 65 to 141. Warned Burger: "It is perhaps the most...
...social status after his father's failure in a grandiose farming and ranching scheme Earlier, the Johnson had behaved as if they were a cut above the hardscrabble-farmer neighbors--his mother was a college graduate and his father a popular, respected state legislator, both descended from prominent pioneer stock, and their pride fired his ambition. But after Sam Ealy Johnson's fall. Johnson City and Blanco County struck back against their once-haughty denizens, systematically snubbing the Johnsons over a period of years. Humiliation reached a painful peak when Lyndon's high-school romance was thwarted by an angry...
...that were destined for retirement. But the SS-20 is an immensely more capable weapon. It is mobile, highly accurate and dauntingly destructive, with three independently targetable warheads. (SS-20 is its NATO designation. The Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces innocently dubbed it the Pioneer, in honor of the U.S.S.R.'s version of Cub Scouts and Campfire Girls...
...Democratic version: Californians are losing an exhilarating, compassionate leader, a pioneer in appointing women, blacks, Hispanics and Asians to help govern the nation's most populous state. They are getting, instead, a humdrum politician, one determined to protect the rich and turn back the clock on progress in civil rights and the environment...
German, Mexican, Polish and Norwegian sidewinders proliferated in the pros in the 1960s and '70s until Americans got the knack. In 1966 Cypriot Garo Yepremian's brother wrote to tell him about the land of milk and honey, and the soccer-style pioneer, Hungarian Pete Gogolak. Garo, a humble tiemaker, left home immediately to be a famous tie breaker. "The next thing I knew, I was a Detroit Lion," recalls Yepremian, who would serve four N.F.L. teams. "The first game I ever saw was in Baltimore against the Colts. I kicked off." Before the game, Yepremian...