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...some court watchers, Brennan's latter-day accomplishments outshine his early years and will mark him in history as one of the high bench's great dissenters. While a member of the Warren court majority, he was guilty of writing some "slapdash" opinions, says Stanford's Gunther. "To my taste Brennan has been a hell of a lot better since he's had to articulate his views in dissent." In those opinions he generally answers the majority point by point and lays out a narrow interpretation of the ruling, which can be helpful to those who later challenge it. Justice...
...contaminated world, like Nevil Shute's 1957 best seller On the Beach. A book of drawings by atom bomb survivors, The Unforgettable Fire, had great public impact in 1982 when the first American edition appeared. At least one major poet recently turned his hand to this subject. Robert Penn Warren's New Dawn chronicles the Enola Gay's mission from the takeoff on Tinian, to the flight over the Aioi Bridge--"Color/ Of the world changes. It/ Changes like a dream." The poem ends with an account of the flyers' celebrations, and then after...
When a draft agreement containing these radical reforms was presented to the union's leaders in early July, they found it too much to swallow in one gulp. Peter Kelly, head of U.A.W. Local 160, in Warren, Mich., said that the plan "could lead to the demise of the U. A. W union movement as we know it." He complained that the proposal would destroy the seniority system, in which the best jobs go to workers with the longest service. Kelly pointed out that while job security would be guaranteed for 80% of Saturn's workers, the remaining 20% could...
Spring Hill is a scenic town set amid rippling cornfields and rolling meadows. Last week its citizens were almost as excited about GM's imminent arrival as they were over an important Little League game in which Andersen's Hardware blasted Jack Warren's Stables by a 30-14 score. At the Poplar Inn on Main Street, where townspeople and truckers can always enjoy pork tenderloin, biscuits and the latest gossip, diners were abuzz about how Maclin Davis, a Nashville lawyer, had accumulated options to buy 4,000 acres around Haynes Haven farm. A few residents had mixed emotions...
...abrogate its labor contracts. The law stipulates that a judge must first rule such a step is necessary for the firm to come out of bankruptcy successfully. Workers hoped that the courts would be sympathetic to their cause, but Wheeling was able to receive the authorization from Bankruptcy Judge Warren W. Bentz. Said Union Attorney Michael Gottesman: "This interpretation of the law could open the floodgates for companies seeking to use the bankruptcy statutes to dodge labor agreements. It's a chilling decision...