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Dates: during 1960-1969
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How much of Burger's philosophy will emerge in the form of specific decisions is uncertain. He will have just one vote in nine. Still, the view from the Chief Justice's chair will be markedly different from what it has been during the 16 years that Earl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supreme Court: Some Heretical Views | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

Thick and Thin. First, researchers must answer a basic question: how is pain felt? As long ago as 1826, Johannes Peter Müller promulgated the "law of specific nerve energies." He suggested that stimulation of specific pain receptors in the skin, like those for heat or pressure, sends impulses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pain: Search for Understanding and Relief | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

The one personality trait, regardless of culture, that most consistently accompanies exaggerated sensitivity to pain, says Sternbach, is neurotic anxiety. This is not the anxiety associated with a specific situation, such as an impending operation, but the persistent, seemingly baseless anxiety that often has its roots in the unconscious. From...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pain: Search for Understanding and Relief | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

¶Unanimously required the Montgomery County, Ala., board of education to assign teachers and other staff members to each of its schools this year in a ratio of at least one black to every five whites. In so ruling, the court supported a quota system for the first time -and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supreme Court: Firm Against Evasion | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

Cortazar's Cronopios and Famas is an assortment of free-floating insights of varying specific levity. Some never quite surface. They are the blind fish of his inspiration, stunted in the sealed caves of his most private fantasy.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Free-Floating Levity | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

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