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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The court's uncertain course depends largely on how five moderate Justices-Potter Stewart, John Paul Stevens, Byron White, Blackmun and Powell -cast their votes. They are known as the "fluid five" or the "floating center." Explains University of Chicago Law Professor Geoffrey Stone: "The Justices in the middle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: A Court with No Identity | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

Quite simply, William Ober, M.D., writes better, more delightfully and with greater flexibility than most professional critics. Borrowing from Wallace Stevens, he readily admits that there is more than one way of looking at a blackbird. The bird, of course, never looks back; the causes of art remain aloof, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Second Opinions | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

Chief Justice Warren Burger and Justice William Rehnquist dissented forcefully. (For varying reasons, Lewis Powell and John Paul Stevens did not participate in the decision.) In a biting opinion, Rehnquist argued that the legislative history of Title VII shows that "Congress meant precisely what it said." Congressional proponents of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: What the Weber Ruling Does | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

The outcome is very much in doubt. Democratic Whip Alan Cranston of California, a leading SALT supporter, counts no more than 58 votes for the treaty and 30 against, leaving twelve Senators wholly undecided. The opponents have similar head counts. Thus, for the moment, the treaty is in what Alaska...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Signed And Sealed... | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

A former professor of mass communications who became chancellor of the University of Wisconsin's Stevens Point campus at 41, Dreyfus is a self-styled "Republicrat." He only joined the G.O.P. in December of 1977. "If you're going to take 'em over, the least you can...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Self-Styled Republicrat | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

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