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...With Fortas' appointment, the Supreme Court will take on a decided Eli tinge. Justices Potter Stewart and Byron White also attended Yale, and Justice William O. Douglas was a member of the faculty before he joined the New Deal. No other law school can claim more than one of the court's nine Justices...
...Opera Ball, the capital's top social event of the season, the French embassy garden was transformed into a tented version of Maxim's in Paris. Party regulars (Vice President Humphrey, Lynda Bird) and regular partygoers (Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Vogue Editor Diana Vreeland, Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart) were all there, along with a clambake of Kennedys (Bobby, Ethel, Ted, Eunice and Sargent Shriver), a détente of diplomats, and a ponderosity of pundits. The music, fittingly enough, was provided by the orchestra of society's pet pianist, Peter Duchin, who is Averell Harriman...
Unplowed Field. "Trial by television is foreign to our system," concluded Clark. The four dissenters were not so sure. Justice Potter Stewart pointed out that the court did not examine the issue of whether TV actually prejudiced Estes' jurors, and he warned against any blanket rule that might stifle free press if and when TV becomes less obtrusive. Justice John M. Harlan cast the fifth vote to make a majority, but he urged the court to "proceed step by step in this unplowed field." If the next TV appeal involves different facts, Harlan implied, he may well shift...
...Gynecologist C. Lee Buxton and Mrs. Estelle Griswold, executive director of the Connecticut Planned Parenthood League, who had been convicted ($100 fines) for dispensing contraceptives at a birth-control clinic in New Haven. "A very bad law," agreed dissenting Justice Hugo Black. "An uncommonly silly law," agreed dissenting Justice Potter Stewart...
...Admiral Perry's naval foray, which in 1853 opened the door to the West. Folk art was austere, subdued, even restrained in its lack of showy flourish and its casual asymmetry. The anonymous artisan's ideal was shibui, which translates as "astringent" or, as a contemporary mingei potter defines it, "ordered poverty." Mingei is still created in Japan today; the Japan Folk Craft Society has 3,000 members and the government has named 31 craftsmen as living "Intangible Cultural Assets." And though critics deplore the endless stream of lacquerware and transistorized radios sold by Japan to the world...