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...statutory law or a legal technicality than on a basic constitutional issue. Tom Clark, still trying to live down his name as Harry Truman's most patent political appointee, tends (with some notable exceptions) to follow the lead of the Chief Justice, whether it be Fred.Vinson or Vinson's successor, Earl Warren. HarIan, a "lawyer's lawyer," has broader previous experience at the bar and the bench than any of his colleagues, but he is the court's newest member and his way has not been clearly charted...
Chief Justice Vinson, questioned about dissents in the court, once exploded; "Look, these are nine guys, all with some reputation, ability and confidence in themselves. If any Chief Justice can knock their heads together and get unanimity he's better than I am." Earl Warren, by persuasion rather than head-knocking, won unanimity in all the desegregation decisions. And it is in testament to his skill and effectiveness as Chief Justice that his will and his liberal bent have come to dominate the Supreme Court over the last year...
COMPETITIVE BIDDING for defense contracts will increase, if House Armed Services Chairman Carl Vinson has his way. After a 30-month study showed that 94% of all contracts were negotiated, Vinson introduced a bill to hold down negotiated deals in peacetime, may propose an amendment that would peg the total no higher than 50%. One example that influenced Vinson: a 1955 negotiated contract for Air Force rocket launchers originally set the price at $32.62 apiece; competitive bids later brought the cost down...
Intellectual Vaudeville. When the big brains among the club members read their case histories of changed identities, Author Dennis shows himself at his best. Vinson's is a sad case. Back from the war he finds the old England swept away: "All the initials have gone from inside the bowler hats." With mystic joy he accepts the unpaid, unwanted post of Co-Warden of the Badgeries, an ancient symbolic office whose sole relic is a stuffed badger. Hardly has his new identity begun to cover him when he is killed as he falls on a pike during a symbolic...
...must remember the several times she competed against the "noted instructor" in the national figure skating championships. As Maribel Vinson, Mrs. Owen did win the title for nine years in succession, starting when she was still a student at Boston Girls Latin and continuing through her years at Radcliffe and as the first woman sports reporter for the New York Times...