Word: warrens
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Belated Advice. During the debate, the charges raised repeatedly against Fortas in Judiciary Committee hearings were aired anew. No one questioned his legal brilliance. Fortas' opponents complained instead about his status as the appointee of a lame-duck President, and his role in enhancing the Warren Court's supposed softness on pornography and criminals. A typical objection came from Dirksen's son-in-law, Tennessee Senator Howard Baker: "In continuing to counsel the President on such matters as the Viet Nam war, the riots, legislative proposals and the 1966 State of the Union address, Justice Fortas...
...Warren, Mich., a blue-collar town, Mayor...
...Bates has been pleading with his constituents to "unload your guns"-literally. Warren residents, predominantly of Eastern European and Italian descent, have been apprehensive ever since last year's uprising in Detroit. Yet Warren has had a decreasing crime rate, and Bates observes: "We have no problems with hippies, yippies or zippies." George Wallace draws strong support in Warren. Among Negroes in the surrounding area, the word is out that to get a flat tire or an empty fuel tank in Warren or neighboring Dearborn is to run a serious risk of physical assault. In upper-income Grosse Pointe...
...biography of President Warren G. Harding by Historian Francis Russell will finally reach the bookstores next month after much litigation, but history buffs are in for a disappointment. The Shadow of Blooming Grove has some important omissions. Blank spaces are used in a dozen or so places, wherever the biographer attempts to quote from Harding's love letters to Ohio Matron Carrie Phillips. Harding's nephew, Ohio Psychiatrist George T. Harding III, got a court order prohibiting publication of them. Readers will just have to use their imaginations...
...South wouldn't have to merge its two school systems all at once, Warren said. Instead, it would have to take steps toward desegregation "with all deliberate speed." Negro parents, NAACP lawyers, and the few Northerners who were familiar with the situation soon learned to despise that phrase...