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...Robe Showing. William Douglas has no phone at his retreat in Goose-prairie, Wash.; so in a pinch, his secretary calls a neighbor who lives six miles away. When Douglas wants to call, he drives 40 miles to a roadside phone booth outside Yakima, Wash., drops in a dime and gets his office collect. Keeping contact with Thurgood Marshall also has its difficulties. In the Virgin Islands in July, he broke an ankle in a Jeep accident. Last summer he had appendicitis, and two summers ago he got pneumonia. "We have a regular routine here," says his secretary...
Beyond formal judicial duties, the Justices also fill what might be called showing-the-robe obligations at events like the recent American Bar Association meeting. By the end of the summer most will have attended meetings of various legal advisory committees on which they serve, as well as a conference of the judges in their area. Chief Justice Warren Burger has extra administrative work so that when he leaves for a 21-week mountain vacation near Washington, D.C., it will be his only full time off, and even then he anticipates devoting three to four hours a day to accumulated...
...Read 'em and weep. Richard Nixon in an ermine robe, Strom Thurmond in a Confederate flag and Lyndon Johnson serving rockets at a barbecue...
When Hughes arrived in Vancouver, according to Canadian Customs Officer John Jackson, he was wearing pajamas, robe and slippers. Unaccountably, Jackson said that Hughes was wearing only a thin mustache and not the Vandyke beard that Shelton said he had when he left Nicaragua. "He looked weary and tired," with a thin, lined face and graying hair slicked back, Jackson said. An aide told customs authorities that Hughes would probably not stay in Canada more than three months, the maximum allowed for visitors without visas. Hughes was spared one routine question directed at arrivals in Canada: no one asked...
Screenwriter Carol Eastman was talking with friends recently about her upcoming debut as a film director. "What," asked one, "are you going to wear-a muumuu, a Gestapo uniform or a terry-cloth robe, mules and pin curls?" Miss Eastman, who wrote Five Easy Pieces, was understandably annoyed. "I turned to a man who had just directed his first picture and said, 'Did they ask you what you were going to wear...