Word: warrens
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...Jordanians. In strode 263 judges from every continent, including bewigged Africans in red robes and five justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. Even the Magna Carta was on hand-its first trip outside Britain in 750 years. "The law is on the march everywhere," declared Chief Justice Earl Warren. And President Johnson added: "The final objective is the largest and most elusive man has known-peace...
That afternoon, near Parowan, Utah, Boggs met and murdered his fourth victim He was Warren George Lenker, 25 of Elizabethville, Pa., who was heading back for his senior year at Brigham Young University after a summer in California and had stopped a roadside park to nap in his car. Boggs said that he awakened Lenker, who got out, smiling. "This isn't a laughing matter " Boggs said he told him, then shot him twice in the head. He transferred Lenker's body to the Simca and propped it up "to make it look like he was sleeping." Lenker...
Brushing past Kamisar at the end of the session, Murphy returned in kind, grunted only: "That was awful." Chief Justice Warren diplomatically praised the discussion as "splendid, fair and searching." Pointing out that he had been a law-enforcement officer himself (chief deputy district attorney of Alameda County, Calif., for two years and California's attorney general for four years) Warren said that he had abundant sympathy for the problems of the police...
Mitigation. League President Warren Giles wasted no time in suspending Marichal for eight playing days and fining him $1,750-biggest fine in the history of the National League. That was too little to satisfy the infuriated Dodgers. "What if he had gone out on the street and clubbed somebody?" demanded one. "He'd have been arrested. It should be a suspension of 1,750 days." Giles granted that Marichal's attack was "repugnant," but took note of mitigating circumstances-"underlying currents," he called them...
...that the 87 votes by which Johnson won the primary were stolen from the opposition. When Johnson became President, one of the first men he called to his side was Fortas. The new President consulted Fortas on appointments, departmental problems, national and international policy, and the creation of the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He worked out the complex trust to manage the Johnson family's Texas holdings during Lyndon's presidency...