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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...