Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ever been to an evangelistic revival meeting will instantly grasp the tempo, rhetoric and fervor of this show. When these people "rock church," they really rock church. Cleavon Little is a kinetic preacherman, and 22-year-old Patti Jo is as much of a superfind as her predecessor, Melba Moore, and equally beguiling...
Sunday Killers. Between 1900 and 1950, more than a million wild horses were eliminated. Even the Government got into the act. From 1934 to 1963, the Bureau of Land Management and its predecessor agency condoned and even paid for the killing of mustangs. On numerous occasions the U.S. Forest Service held "close-outs" in which it gave ranchers 60 days to round up their own strays on forest service land-and then proceeded to shoot any remaining wild horses. The bureau's rationale: the mustangs chomp up valuable vegetation on Government property...
...quickly agreed. Sobek has since retired, and Austrian stamp dealers as well as lawyers for two important foreign buyers, said to be an American and an Israeli, have stepped up pressure on his successor, Dr. Helmut Fichtenthal. But Fichtenthal is as adamantly opposed to selling the stamps as his predecessor. Rejecting all offers, he said last week: "The sale is an ethical question. I shall guard the stamps as long as I am in office." Philatelists estimate that in the meantime the value of the stamps has increased...
Still, the new court is far more restrained than its activist predecessor. Where the Warren Court often upset state laws that ran contrary to its broadly conceived egalitarianism, the present court avoids such confrontations whenever possible. It has often been unreceptive, for instance, to suits on behalf of welfare recipients. As a result, it has down-played the 14th Amendment and even trimmed some of its forerunner's key rulings. The new approach...
...cooler Burger Court seems unlikely to stir the nation, more likely to let the law jell for a time, as its predecessor had begun to do. It seems to lean toward a different Supreme Court role: providing calm at a time of dislocation and national self-questioning. Yet the Burger Court may also risk a kind of partisanship, a tendency to resist social change, favor police power and not hear the claims of minority groups, to whom the Supreme Court had recently become the most responsive branch of Government. None of this necessarily means that the Burger Court is unrealistic...