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...crisis was only temporary. Editor Roy Rowan announced last week that Universal Publishing and Distributing Corp. (Family Handyman, Natural Gardening) will take over the two magazines, pump more than $1,000,000 into circulation promotion, and revive On the Sound (circ. 50,000) in December, after a two-month recess. On the Shore (circ. 25,000) will resume publication later...
Last year the Pentagon papers cut into the summer recess. This year the dispute over the California delegation to the Democratic Convention brought the Justices back to work in only the fourth special summer session in history. After that, the court firmly turned down two more bids for special hearings, on the Ellsberg case and on the Ripon Society challenge to the Republican delegate selection process. Even when the Justices have scattered around the country, however, the Supreme Court machinery continues to operate through an informal system of phone calls and couriers...
...Recess or no recess, each of the Justices must oversee the federal courts in a given area of the country. "Applications-for a stay of an order, for granting of bail and so forth-average about one per day," says Lewis Powell, "and they usually require immediate attention." When he arrived last week for a three-day visit with his daughter near Hunt, Texas, he hoped to enjoy his first nonweekend leisure time of the summer, but two large packages of court business were waiting...
Several Justices feel that they must stay in or near Washington during most of the recess. And any Justice who departs maintains regular contact. Potter Stewart drives daily to the post office in Franconia, N.H., where at first "a few of the Yankees looked pretty skeptically" at the franked manila envelopes that poured in. "I think they wanted to know where the stamps were," says Stewart, who puts in three or four hours of court work seven days a week...
...trouble was that the Supreme Court was in recess until October. When the Justices were polled by telephone they unanimously declined to overrule Douglas and return to Washington for a special summer session. Thus the trial was postponed until autumn at the earliest...