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...Frankfurter led in the landmark decision implementing school desegregation; it was he who united a divided court by offering the compromise order, "with all deliberate speed." But the court was slowly shifting toward a more activist majority. Black's incorporation theory has yet to prevail, but his libertarian ideas have. In a spate of recent decisions, the court has increasingly "federalized" state criminal-law procedures and raised them to Bill of Rights standards. In 1962, the court also tackled reapportionment, over Frankfurter's last despairing dissent that it was "a massive repudiation of the experience of our whole...
...eagle in the air and the whale in the sea cannot conquer the elephant in the jungle. Our overwhelming air and naval supremacy, even our bomb, cannot prevail over China's 700 million people. China warns it will not sit idly by if we attack, and made good a similar threat in Korea in 1952. Must we risk World War ITI to settle a pint-sized civil war in a feudal enclave 7,000 miles away...
...delighted by the news that he set Josephus up in style and provided him with a wife; in turn, Josephus spent the rest of the war trying to persuade the Jews to surrender. He believed it to be God's will that Rome, the mightier culture, should prevail. In their bullheadedness, the Jews ignored the classic portents of disaster: chariots darting through the clouds, a cow giving birth to a lamb in the Temple of Herod. When Palestine was finally crushed, its people scattered in the Diaspora that was to be their fate for nearly 19 centuries, Josephus...
...Reformation? Can it be? If thinkers like Bishops Robinson and Pike prevail, perhaps the church will again deserve my consideration...
...convictions were under state rather than federal law, ruled last week's majority, is "a distinction without a difference." Explained the opinion, also written by Justice Tom Clark: "Since the provisions of the Act would abate all federal prosecutions it follows that the same rule must prevail under the Supremacy Clause which requires that a contrary state practice or state statute must give...