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...cassettes, cosmetics, T-shirts and even underwear, wouldn't touch our money to break that rule. It's as though the government tacitly cedes certain areas to the black market, and the people steadfastly leave the other areas alone. So we were able to convince every hotel not to stamp our currency form, but for transportation we had to pay official dollars...
...gowns and Confederate uniforms were back in vogue in Atlanta and environs at a ten-day celebration marking the 50th anniversary of Margaret Mitchell's novel about the Old South, Gone With the Wind. The U.S. Postal Service last week even issued a definitive memorial 1 cents U.S. postage stamp with Mitchell's likeness. As if to confirm the cult status of the Pulitzer- prize-winning novel (25 million copies sold in 27 languages) and the 1939 movie, serious philatelists and GWTW aficionados alike stormed a postal booth and bought 50,000 of the new stamps...
...insisting that the right to privacy extends only to rights "deeply rooted in the nation's history and tradition," White basically is saying that people have the right to do anything so long as it has received a historic stamp of approval from the rest of society. But if White were to study the history of Western rights he would discover that they were designed to protect precisely that area of conduct that is most frequently impugned. The Constitution is a worthless document if it enforces only that which does not need enforcing. A right to privacy that allows...
Unlike some of his colleagues who agonize over each opinion and stagger under the court's case load, Rehnquist is known for quickness and efficiency. On most days he leaves the court at 3 p.m. to go swimming. He finds time for stamp collecting and oil painting (indeed, he skipped the President's State of the Union speech last February to go to his painting class in Arlington, Va.). He once even tried his hand at writing a novel about the intrigues of a federal appeals court in the Southwest (it was rejected by several publishers). At times Rehnquist...
...appointment of William A. Graham Jr. is expected to receive rubber-stamp approval from Harvard's seven-man governing Corporation tomorrow...