Word: stewart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three streams of argument that emerged from the Supreme Court Justices' separate opinions are best illustrated by the pro-press views of Hugo Black, the tightly reasoned moderate position of Potter Stewart, and the pro-Government dissenting opinion of Chief Justice Warren Burger. Excerpts...
...Government had failed to show there was a "direct and immediate link" between "the fact of publication" and any "grave event" that endangered the nation. When Griswold contended in his summary that the First Amendment was "not intended to make it impossible for Government to function," Justice Potter Stewart observed that unless there was conclusive proof that publication of documents endangered national security, then "prior restraint is presumptively unconstitutional...
...Times and Post took heart from the narrow (5 to 4) decision to listen to oral arguments; the dissenting Justices (Douglas, Hugo Black, William Brennan, Thurgood Marshall) did not even think the Government's case was worth considering. If only one of the other five joins them-and Stewart is considered an active possibility-then the papers will have won their battle against prior restraint. But the victory would not allow the press to behave irresponsibly. The question before the court this week is only whether the press can be prevented in advance from publishing classified information...
...Sammy Davis Jr. and a "come casually beautiful" dinner dance at Polly Bergen's. The gala, with an audience of 5,300 at the Los Angeles Music Center, outgalaed just about everything in Hollywood memory. "Never before have so many stars appeared in one evening," said M.C. Jimmy Stewart, "and that includes the Academy Awards, the Emmy Awards...
...Ellen Stewart, D.F.A., impresario of New York City's Café La Mama theater...