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...called Kennedy v. Nixon, which would look catchy in the case books, but when the senior Senator from Massachusetts went to court against the President last week, he had to sue two relatively obscure bureaucrats. At issue: what Ted Kennedy called the President's "promiscuous use of the pocket-veto power...
...that if the President takes no action on a bill for ten days after it has been presented to him by Congress, it becomes law without his signature-unless Congress is in adjournment when the ten-day period ends. In that case, if the President has done nothing, his "pocket veto" kills the bill. After a normal veto, Congress can try to organize the two-thirds majorities necessary to override the President. But pocket-vetoed legislation must start all over again as a new bill, crawling through the tortuous process of committee hearings and debate...
...telephone hookup to his bedside in the Spain Rehabilitation Center in Birmingham. The delegates, many of them with tears in their eyes, sat in somber silence as Wallace, his weak voice amplified through two loudspeakers, explained that "I have two open places still draining" and "another big pocket of infection." That convinced enough disbelievers to make the convention seem an exercise in futility...
There was general agreement about Eagleton last week among depression patients gathered in the Manhattan office of Psychiatrist Leonard Cammer for electrical treatment. Author of the helpful volume Up From Depression (Simon & Schuster and Pocket Books), Cammer objects to the terms "shock" and "electroconvulsive therapy." He prefers "electric-stimulation treatment." He offers his patients heavy doses of reassurance, and advises them not to hide their problems and treatment from friends and associates...
...lawyers, but he has tended to dominate the defense. He does cut a picturesque figure, always in a rumpled suit, his gray-blond hair tousled and his courtroom table stacked with cluttered piles of books and memos. Occasionally he ambles around the court, one fist jammed in a coat pocket; at 60, he needs the periodic exercise because he wears a heart pacemaker...