Word: thicketed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Skyscrapers in the Sun. He presides over one of the hottest (average temperature: 90°) lands on earth, a steaming, lush thicket the size of New Mexico. Although much of Ivory Coast (pop. 3,500,000) consists of juju and squalid villages, it is moving ahead at a breathtaking pace. Its harbor at Abidjan, the capital, handles the world's third largest coffee crop, the fourth biggest cocoa output. Behind the docks is a booming city of 200,000, which for European charm and modern creature comforts matches anything in Africa. Superb restaurants offer French food (at outlandish prices...
Messy Decision. What the Supreme Court did in its decision was to bring the apportionment of seats in state legislatures under the review of federal courts, thereby entangling the Federal Government in a thorny thicket that earlier Supreme Court decisions had deliberately tried to avoid (see following story). The court's performance was typical of its performances in important constitutional cases in recent years-a cloudy decision, a fragmented bench. Justice William...
Mother Hubbard. For years, the Supreme Court has refused to assume jurisdiction for federal courts over state apportionment disputes. In the 1946 case of Colegrove v. Green, Justice Felix Frankfurter (who strongly dissented from the majority ruling last week) held that federal courts "ought not to enter this political thicket." This ruling, wrote Justice Tom Clark in concurring with the majority last week, has "served as a Mother Hubbard to most of the subsequent cases." By its latest decision, the Supreme Court has merely opened the cupboard door. It holds that crazy-quilt systems of legislative apportionment may violate...
...shares at least some of the concern that prompted Justice Frankfurter to dissent so vigorously. Frankfurter laid down the 1946 ruling which Federal courts have up to now quoted in refusing to rule on legislative apportionment, and he is still worried that the Court is entering a dangerous political thicket. Certainly the dangers he points out are real, but then so are the out-rages of the American political system. And as with the segregation issue, there is no remedy but Court action. As Justice Clark put it, "It is well for this court to practice self-restraint and discipline...
...WING ON A FLEA (by Ed Emberley; Little, Brown; $2.95) is a precise ballet of triangles, rectangles and circles performed in an amusing thicket of Steinbergian curlicues. Through a repetition of designs, the author-illustrator opens a child's eyes to the similes and metaphors of nature, the recurring likenesses that link man and animal in the great chain of being. "A triangle is the wing on a flea/ And the beak on a bird/ If you'll just look and see . . . A bandit's bandanna/ An admiral's hat/ And in case...