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Mother Jones has told readers how to organize boycotts (once listing all the trade names of antiunion J.P. Stevens products) and how to spur recalls of cars. Explains Dowie: "We want to get readers angry and make them do something. We're pamphleteers." Staff members talk easily of "fascist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Mother's Call | 7/21/1980 | See Source »

One day last fall a lawyer for the oil industry stood before the Supreme Court and urged the nine robed Justices to throw out a federal regulation limiting the amount of dangerous benzene vapor permitted in the workplace. Justice John Paul Stevens, the newest member of the court, leaned forward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Gadfly to the Brethren | 7/21/1980 | See Source »

Since his 1975 swearing-in as the 101st man to serve as a Justice, Stevens has brought a fresh approach to his work. On a court noted for its fragmentation and diversity, Stevens is the extreme case, a personal loner and a legal maverick. Yet he has won the respect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Gadfly to the Brethren | 7/21/1980 | See Source »

It seems safe to say that Gerald Ford had no idea what he was getting when he nominated Stevens to fill the seat of William O. Douglas. The son of a well-to-do businessman, Stevens clerked for Justice Wiley Rutledge 32 years ago, then made a career as an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Gadfly to the Brethren | 7/21/1980 | See Source »

Four Justices agreed in an opinion written by Stevens. OSHA, they said, had failed to show that there was any significant risk to workers' health at the 10 p.p.m. standard; most of the cancer cases occurred among workers who had breathed much higher concentrations of benzene many years earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Four Big Decisions | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

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