Word: warrens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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KALEIDOSCOPE. Love and larceny in the casinos of Europe. Warren Beatty makes the scene as a rich American playboy with a surefire method for breaking the bank, and Susannah York is the breezy British bird who helps him spend the loot...
...Europe, he achieved only bathos in his lone campaign foray into Newark, N.J. Pointedly failing even to shake hands with New York Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Frank O'Connor, who is in a tight race with Nelson Rockefeller, the President crossed the Hudson to boost New Jersey Senatorial Contender Warren Wilentz, who has little hope of defeating the incumbent liberal Republican, Clifford Case...
Hardly Going In the not-so-distant past, the Supreme Court hewed to precedent and generally rebuffed all but the most monumental constitutional questions. But ever since Earl Warren became Chief Justice in 1953, a new "activist" court has thrown open its judicial windows to practically every ill and issue of U.S. life. In the face of what it regards as legislative inaction, the "Warren court" has desegregated schools, revolutionized criminal justice, rewritten the U.S. political system by plunging into the thicket of legislative reapportionment. To expand the long reach of the Constitution, it has imposed almost...
Time and again, critics have blasted the Warren court for being more political than judicial; yet time and again, its controversial decisions have survived all efforts to override them by constitutional amendment. Not surprisingly, the nation's lawyers now figure that almost every case raises constitutional issues that may attract the court. They appeal more and more cases, and as a result, more and more decisions raise more and more issues. Over the years, the court's workload has risen steadily. In 1940 the court handled only 977 cases, in 1950 only 1,181. Last term it considered...
Guilt & Garbage. To hear some experts tell it, the Warren court has covered so much ground that it now faces its dullest term in 14 years. At first glance, the new docket promises few blockbuster decisions, such as those that banned public-school prayers in 1963 and curbed confessions last June. Yet the Warren court is hardly preparing to go out of business. Last week it faced requests to review lower-court decisions involving everything from labels on Swiss cheese to the right of students to sport beards and spurn haircuts. This week as it goes back to work...