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Bechtel began life virtually as a one-man operation, when a young German rancher named Warren A. Bechtel decided in 1898 to hire himself out with his mules to help construct a railroad line through Indian territory. The company established its name nationally in 1931 by helping to lead the eight-company consortium that built the Hoover...
...Jonathan Warren, M.D. Miami...
Last week three of Nixon's appointees (Chief Justice Warren Burger, Lewis Powell and William Rehnquist) helped overturn those lower-court decisions. Wrote Powell for the majority: "Because of the singular importance of the President's duties, diversion of his energies by concern with private lawsuits would raise unique risks to the effective functioning of government." A Chief Executive who was vulnerable to such suits, Powell argued, would tend to be overly cautious...
...dissent, Chief Justice Warren Burger hammered away on a major theme of the current high court: deference to legislators. While conceding that the 14th Amendment's guarantee of equal protection under the law applies even to those illegally in the country (a seeming paradox to many laymen), Burger accused the majority of misusing that safeguard. "The Constitution," he said, "does not provide a cure for every social ill, nor does it vest judges with a mandate to try to remedy every social problem...
...book describes an obstetrics that is passé. "We've become enlightened," he says. "We do not intervene willy-nilly." He cites a declining episiotomy rate, efforts to control the number of caesareans and a willingness to "allow labor to evolve." This view is affirmed by Dr. Warren Pearse, executive director of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. The national caesarean rate, says Pearse, is about 17%, and, he predicts, with efforts now under way, "it drop back to the neighborhood...