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...although the defense was often hedged. Said the conservative Chicago Tribune last week: "Nixon's letter declining to provide the tapes was not all that unreasonable. Perhaps reason can still be appealed to to produce a compromise that may save the country from this tragically unnecessary battle." The Richmond Times-Dispatch was more emphatic in its support: "His compliance would have shattered the separation of powers principle and left the presidency vulnerable to all kinds of incursions in the future...
Last week the Supreme Court decisively rejected these expedients. Writing for the majority, Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr., himself a former Richmond school board chairman, declared that the consequence of all such plans was a "special economic benefit" designed to "preserve and support religion-oriented institutions...
...spent on tour. "When you're on a plane," he says, "there are two things you can do: drink yourself silly or read books." While he admits to doing his share of the former, it was inflight reading that paid off for Wakeman. On a flight from Richmond to Chicago last year, he read N. Brysson Morrison's The Private Life of Henry VIII and got the idea for Six Wives...
...solution last week. At issue was the situation in Detroit, where Federal Judge Stephen J. Roth has ordered that the city's 285,000 pupils (67% black) must be merged, by busing, with the 495,000 (80% white) who live in 52 outlying districts. A similar ruling in Richmond was rejected by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and died when the Supreme Court tied 4-4 (Justice Lewis Powell, a former Richmond school board official, abstained). In the Detroit case, however, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 6-3 that city-suburban busing could indeed be ordered...
...novel, Wicker tells about a liberal Senator from the South. The poor chap is driven into trying for the presidential nomination by his enigmatic wife ("eyes of the smoky lambent blue that drifts mistily on soft Southern mountains"). Inevitably, the events are recollected by a veteran Washington correspondent, one Richmond P. Morgan ("The Professional," in Wicker's chest-thumping epithet), who got his start covering the Senator's first campaign. Inevitably too, Morgan is now the lover of the Senator's smoky, lambent wife, as well as bureau chief for an unnamed but very important Northern newspaper...