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Future Justice or no, Ely probably need not worry about posterity. As a Yale law student, he helped future Court Justice Abe Fortas win the landmark Gideon v. Wainwright case, in which the Court declared that indigents have the constitutional rights to counsel at trials. He did a stint on the staff of the Warren Commission investigating the death of President John F. Kennedy '40, clerked for Justice Warren the next year, and worked as a public defender in San Diego...
...Wainwright State Office Complex, St. Louis. Mitchell/Giurgola in association with Hastings & Chivetta, architects. A self-negating structure that is almost "non-architecture" adds usable space to Louis Sullivan's famed building...
...nothing fanciful about these floating hulks. The ice is fragile from the summer, and if the tug sails too close, its wake can make the bergs crack or explode. Depending on the density of the floes, Kardonsky will take anywhere from a day to three weeks to sail between Wainwright and Prudhoe...
...mobile ice moving at four or five knots and coming at you like a 16-ft. plowshare." But the prowling plowshares are at a safe distance this time, and Borgert tells Kardonsky to press on for Prudhoe Bay. The Cavalier arrives at its destination 26 hr. after it left Wainwright...
...empty barges to be rehitched so that they can set sail for Seattle. But for Kardonsky, the most experienced skipper in the fleet, a more savage task remains. The Cavalier has to tow one last load of equipment to Prudhoe Bay. The tug will return to Wainwright, hook up with a bargeload of pipes from Japan and once more swing east. Feeling the menacing bite of the chill September air, the crew will be praying harder than usual that the Arctic not mistake Kardonsky's nerve for defiance. -By Michael Moritz