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Viewed from the gallery, the U.S. Senate falls woefully short of its own billing as the greatest deliberative body on earth. Vital issues are very often resolved casually after pawky debates; speakers drone on in an echo chamber of vacant desks. Delay and confusion abound. Last week Senators tugged valiantly at their togas and amended the rule book in the name of statesmanly decorum...
Could Chief Justice Earl Warren, 76, be a litterbug? That's what Robert I. Schramm, 29, legislative assistant to Georgia's Senator Herman Talmadge, claimed. Schramm bought a Washington town house bordering a vacant lot leased by the Supreme Court for employee parking. Evidently the lot was also used by the whole neighborhood as a combination dump and doggie-run. Schramm tried complaining to the Supreme Court building's superintendent, the Board of Health, the Supreme Court marshal and the coal company that owns the lot-all of whom passed the buck. Schramm finally filed suit, naming...
...than Griswold. Heading the Divinity School is Stockholm-born Krister Stendahl, 46, an ordained Lutheran minister who is regarded as one of the top New Testament scholars in the U.S. Admired by his students as a charismatic teacher, Stendahl was one of three leading candidates last year for the vacant post of primate in Sweden's state church...
Sleazy Money. The Suffolk County water authority, Newsday reported, had prohibited industrial development of vacant land in central Islip for fear that waste products would pollute the water supply. But when Water Authority Member (and Islip Republican Party Leader) Edward McGowan's firm bought the land, the authority changed its mind and approved its rezoning for manufacturing. McGowan sold the tract for a $167,000 profit. The scandal reached even to Newsday's doorstep. Its Suffolk editor, Kirk Price, who died last March, made $33,000 by a sale of land that he had bought...
...become the prerogative of Popes, who frequently reassigned the right to kings in return for political favors. A vestige of this procedure remains in the concordats that the church maintains with some traditionally Catholic countries; in Spain, for example, Generalissimo Franco has the right to designate nominees for vacant sees...